Bug#642810: FTBFS on Alpha: need --enable-pic for shared library build.

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mi, Okt 05, 2011 at 11:45:51 (CEST), Fabian Greffrath wrote:

> Am 25.09.2011 11:05, schrieb Michael Cree:
>> x264 FTBFS from source on Alpha during the link of the shared library
>> because -fpic was not used in the compilation.
>
> Why don't we just pass --enable-pic unconditionally for all shared
> library builds?

I'm pretty sure that this would break compilation at least on i386. x264
ships with very sophisticated assembler optimizations that I'd expect to
break with that.

The correct fix is to add alpha to the whitelist in the configure script.

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