Bug 117663 – [QA] mplayer contains executable stacks

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Benno Schulenberg 2006-01-03 13:58:26 UTC]

Emerging mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1 gives this:

QA Notice: the following files contain executable stacks
 Files with executable stacks will not work properly (or at all!)
 on some architectures/operating systems.  A bug should be filed
 at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ to make sure the file is fixed.
RWX --- --- usr/bin/mplayer
RWX --- --- usr/bin/mencoder

[Comment 1 Reimar Döffinger 2006-01-07 02:50:47 UTC]

For some reason gcc thinks that MPlayer needs an executable stack, which I think even pre7 does not anymore (even in older versions it was only needed for some software scalers).
Solved in MPlayer CVS by adding -Wl,-z,noexecstack to the CFLAGS when this option is available.
Btw. I think there was already another bugreport about this problem.

[Comment 2 Luca Barbato 2006-01-07 05:14:25 UTC]

I'll resnapshot tomorrow, maybe I could find the time to track the segfault on seek to eof.

[Comment 3 Benno Schulenberg 2007-05-27 10:51:07 UTC]

As comment #1 states, this was fixed long ago in mplayer's CVS.