Re: pkg/52494: ffmpeg text relocations, i386-8.0_BETA, i386-8.99.1

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/52494; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
	jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/52494: ffmpeg text relocations, i386-8.0_BETA, i386-8.99.1
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:42:33 +0200

 On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 04:35:01AM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
 >  I wouldn't be surprised if other operating systems made -fPIC the
 >  default and that's why they don't have the same issue, certainly
 >  Ubuntu now defaults to making PIE binaries and needs to explicit
 >  disable otherwise.
 
 Unlikely. They very likely just don't care about the text relocations.
 You know, "performance".
 
 Joerg