Text relocation in Android gstreamer library: error compilation after API=23

[Gregoire Gentil]

I'm fine to keep android-22 but I think that the importance of this bug 
should be raised up because Android-23 doesn't consider it any more as a 
warning but as an error and it prevents from working,

Grégoire



On 12/21/2015 01:57 PM, stic at free.fr wrote:
> Text relocation is caused by libav and x264 plugins. If you don't need them and remove it you won't have text relocation anymore, and your library will be allowed again when targeting android-23.
> See following bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742633
> But you could also keep targeting android-22 so you won't be annoyed by this.
>
> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Gregoire Gentil" <gregoire at gentil.com>
> À: gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Envoyé: Lundi 21 Décembre 2015 20:43:03
> Objet: Text relocation in Android gstreamer library: error compilation after API=23
>
> I have an Android gstreamer library. It was initially compiled with
> version 1.5.1 on API 19 or 21. I had a warning message stating that
> there are some text relocations but there was no problem.
>
> I upgraded to API 23, NDK revsion 10e as well as gstreamer 1.6. If I use
>
> <uses-sdk
>       android:minSdkVersion="14"
>       android:targetSdkVersion="22" />
>
> in the manifest, everything works fine.
>
> If I use
>
> <uses-sdk
>       android:minSdkVersion="14"
>       android:targetSdkVersion="23" />
>
> it still compiles but it doesn't work at run-time. The device says that
> it can't find the library though it's in the apk file.
>
> Before the upgrade, I tried to add -fPIC but I was still getting the
> warning. I was unsure if the relocation was in my code or if it was in
> the Android gstreamer binaries.
>
> Since the upgrade to gstreamer 1.6, I don't get any more warning or
> error during compilation. But now it fails at run-time.
>
> I'm wondering if the gstreamer binaries had or have some text
> relocation. I don't think that I'm doing anything special in my
> gstreamer code that would trigger a relocation but I'm unsure.
>
> Here is a couple of link:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34373984/missing-library-for-android-6-x-app-when-compiling-with-targetsdkversion-23-32
>
> https://code.google.com/p/android-developer-preview/issues/detail?id=3028
>
> Any idea?
>
> Grégoire
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