Seems that according to Policy §10.2, we need to document why we are not
building the shared library with -fPIC in the file README.Debian and get
consensus on that on the debian-devel mailing list.
The reason is that x264 uses a lot of hand written assembler, and
upstream takes care to use non-pic code only on architectures that
support this.
Package: x264 2042+git178455c -1
Version: 2:0.116.
Severity: wishlist
Bug forwarded from https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 919509
Seems that according to Policy §10.2, we need to document why we are not
building the shared library with -fPIC in the file README.Debian and get
consensus on that on the debian-devel mailing list.
The reason is that x264 uses a lot of hand written assembler, and
upstream takes care to use non-pic code only on architectures that
support this.
Btw, the same applies to the libav* packages.
Cheers,
Reinhard