Ubuntu
chromium-browser package

  1. Oneiric (11.10)
  2. Bug #795171
  3. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 795171

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Fabien Tassin (fta) wrote :

Short story: oneiric comes with --as-needed by default, so -lvpx was silently dropped from libffmpegsumo.so, resulting in no support for the HTML5 <video> tag in the browser.

Long story: --as-needed was introduced to reduce the number of dependencies of packages. This is a change which happened in other distros (Debian, Fedora, Suse) and should have happened in Natty but was dropped at the last minute. Some packages are not impacted, but a long list are, including chromium. It's properly described here: http://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain/DSOLinking