On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Eric Bélanger
Hi,
While trying to update mpg123, I noticed that namcap reported that the library in the i686 package had text relocations. After reporting that to upstream [1], it turns out to be a known issue with the assembly optimisation. The only way to remove the text relocations (apart from not supplying the dynamic library) is to turn off the assembly optimization, i.e. removing sse, mmx and 3dnow from the i686 package. As this will probably affect performance and Arch doesn't do any hardening stuff, I'm wondering if it is really necessary to remove text relocations from the package in this situation. Would there be any objections if I just ignore the namcap warning and continue to build the i686 package with the full optimization as before?
Eric
[1] https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3504701&group_id=135704&atid=733194
As no-one seem to care, I ignored the text relocations warning and pushed an updated package with the assembly optimization like it was done in the previous packages.