Bug 70637

Summary:	prelink cannot prelink /usr/bin/vlc due to non_PIC libavcodec
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Grant <davidgrant>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project <media-video>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Grant 2004-11-10 01:06:13 UTC

prelink: /usr/bin/vlc: Cannot prelink against non-PIC shared library /usr/lib/libavcodec.so

Can libavcodec be compiled with -fPIC?

Comment 1 Chris White (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-07 20:20:48 UTC

I need more information before I can answer that.  Best to ouput emerge --info.