Reinhard Tartler wrote:
Hi Howard,
in our multimedia packaging team, there is some interest by various
people to use librtmp inside shared libraries like libavformat.so or
gstreamer modules. This requires compiling the library as position
independent code (PIC).
Would you consider a patch for building a shared library librtmp.so for
the next release? This way we could have both a PIC and a non-PIC
version, and avoid code duplications across application packages. The
downside of this would be of course the (well known) overhead of shared
library maintenance.
If you submit a patch I'll take a look. I'm not ready to go there yet myself,
there are other loose ends that still need to be tied up first.
Please share your thoughts on this topic with us :-)
regards,
Reinhard
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 09:46:07 (CEST), Fabian Greffrath wrote:
Hi all,
Am 07.06.2010 11:50, schrieb Sebastian Dröge:
Or at least a -fPIC static library? :)
Obviously this is what I recommend for now.
given that upstream already has a rtmpsrc gstreamer-plugin in the "bad"
set waiting (thanks slomo), I'd like to take action on this issue. My
question is, how to do it best?
1) Build the library only once but with -fPIC. Does this have an effect
on other non-library binaries linking against it? (If not, why don't we
build all static libraries in Debian with -fPIC?)
-fPIC code on most platforms is a little slower than non-PIC; that's the
reason most systems don't build this way by default. Some notable exceptions I
recall are AIX/POWER (all binaries are PIC) and M68K (PIC was actually more
compact and faster in many cases). I think on modern systems the difference is
negligible.
2) We build the library twice in debian/rules, once with and once
without -fPIC.
a) We rename the -fPIC variant to librtmp_pic.a and install it into
librtmp-dev in addition the non-PIC library. (This would probably also
require some patching against the pkg-config file.)
b) Both variants will be called librtmp.a but installed into different
packages librtmp-dev and libtrmp_pic-dev which conflict against each
other. (This would require a separate pkg-config file for each variant.)
Sounds like a lot of hassle for no real reason.
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