[arch-dev-public] Any policy on text relocations?

[Eric Bélanger]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.