A bit of background: SDL links in the static libraries Xxf86dga, Xxf86vm, and Xv. These are compiled without PIC information, and on many architectures PIC and non-PIC libraries can't be combined. Branden Robinson (among others) solved this problem by linking shared plugins (which this mail concerns) with new, PIC-compiled versions of these libraries.
The package in question, smpeg-xmms, is a plugin (.so) for xmms which plays MPEG files using the SMPEG library. It also uses libtool. Now, using the new PIC X libraries should have fixed the linking-static-code-into-.so-raries problem, but on certain architectures (m68k, mips, s390, mipsel, and arm, at least), libtool disagrees: *** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by -lXxf86dga_pic. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have. *** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by -lXxf86vm_pic. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have. *** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by -lXv_pic. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have. *** Warning: libtool could not satisfy all declared inter-library *** dependencies of module libsmpeg_xmms. Therefore, libtool will create *** a static module, that should work as long as the dlopening *** application is linked with the -dlopen flag. Now, I only have direct access to i386 and hppa boxes, which both frustratingly work perfectly with smpeg-xmms, so I can't fix this easily. Does anybody have any idea how to force libtool to make .so files? Is it possible to fix this any other way? -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please encrypt email sent to me.
