[mythtv] Mythtv CVS on AMD64 wants -fPIC

[Rutger Hendriks]

On Sunday 12 December 2004 18:43, Kyle Rose wrote:
> Rutger Hendriks <Loial at home.nl> writes:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > the problem described below still applies on CVS for a few seconds ago
> > I have now -fPIC -DPIC -fPIC in the following variables:
> > CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LFLAGS, LIBS
> > in the Makefile in mythtv/libs/libavcodec
> >
> > Any input is appreciated. I would really like to install the latest
> > version because 0.16 keeps crashing on me :-(
>
> So, the only way I've been able to get this to compile on AMD64 is to
>
> ./configure --disable-mmx
>
> The problem is that the MMX assembler code in ffmpeg/libavcodec is
> triggering what the ffmpeg guys claim is a bug in ld.  Whatever the
> reason, neither side is fixing the problem, so you are unable to use
> MMX until either (a) someone posts a workaround for the ffmpeg
> assembly code or (b) the ld guys fix the alleged bug.
>
> FWIW, the above works just fine with a dual opteron 244, but the
> resulting code does use more than 50% of the two CPU's when viewing
> HDTV, so you will probably have problems with a single proc if you
> watch HDTV.
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle

Thanks Kyle, it compiles now, I'll try to see what the cpu usage is
I'll see if there's a bugreport at ffmpeg or at ld about it

Thanks,
Rutger