[Gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 104208] Changed - [PPC]ffmpeg plugin fails to load

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Changed by dlehn at vt.edu.

--- shadow/104208	Thu Jan 23 09:00:40 2003
+++ shadow/104208.tmp.1688	Fri Jan 24 04:22:18 2003
@@ -56,6 +56,22 @@
 load: Error loading plugin
 /opt/gnome2/lib/gstreamer-0.5/libgstxvideosink.so, reason:
 /opt/gnome2/lib/gstreamer-0.5/libgstxvideosink.so: R_PPC_REL24
 relocation at 0x0caf7440 for symbol `ist_delete_link' out of range
  
 Plugin /opt/gnome2/lib/gstreamer-0.5/libgstxvideosink.so failed to load
+
+------- Additional Comments From dlehn at vt.edu  2003-01-24 04:22 -------
+I was thinking this is a problem of ffmpeg libs not being built
+shared.  Right now the ffmpeg plugin links to ibavcodec.a and
+libavformat.a.  I think the theory is that we have to change the build
+so that ffmpeg's configure script is called with --enable-shared.  I
+did this and can provide the patch but I'm not sure it matters. 
+ffmpeg only builds libavcodec.so not libavformat.so.  Just fixing one
+of the libs probably isn't enough.  Plus if you look at the ffmpeg
+build scripts it's not like it even bothers to use the flag to do
+-fPIC.  This is ok on x86 but not many other archs.  It looks like the
+solution may be to work on the ffmpeg build so it uses the
+BUILD_SHARED flag to use -fPIC and build shared lib for libavformat
+too.  Yuck.
+
+Or of course I may be totally misdirected about the whole problem.