package: libplayer severity: important libplayer FTBFS on armhf with the message
/usr/bin/ld.bfd.real: mrl.o: relocation R_ARM_THM_MOVW_ABS_NC against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC Looking at debian/rules it looks like there was already an attempt to add -fPIC to the CFLAGS but it only works if CFLAGS is already set in the environment (which current dpkg-buildpackage doesn't do anymore). I added the export statement so that it would be effective regardless of whether CFLAGS is already set in the environment and the package built successfully. I've attatched a patch that makes that change. I do not know why libplayer succeeds on other architectures.
--- libplayer-2.0.1/debian/rules 2010-10-03 08:08:44.000000000 +0000 +++ libplayer-2.0.1.new/debian/rules 2012-01-19 19:05:28.000000000 +0000 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode. #export DH_VERBOSE=1 -CFLAGS += -fPIC +export CFLAGS += -fPIC CONFIGURE_OPTS = --prefix=/usr --disable-strip --enable-doc --enable-mplayer --enable-xine --enable-gstreamer --enable-vlc
