[XviD-devel] xvidcore yasm build won't link w/ ffmpeg

[sean darcy]

On 1/26/06, Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr> wrote:
> sean (seandarcy2 at gmail.com) wrote:
> > Is this so? As far as I can tell the other xvidcore asm's
> > can be used in shared libraries.
>
> The xvidcore assembly is not position independent code, and as amd64
> ABI requires code to be PIC in a shared library, that's why the last
> stage ld pass bails out about using data directly without using rip to
> reference it in a PIC manner.
>
> --

Is there any reason xvidcore assembly is not PIC? Is it difficult to
make it PIC? Is it just a matter of changing the parameters for
calling yasm?

sean