[x264-devel] [PATCH] x264 executable stack and selinux

Guillaume POIRIER poirierg at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 17:53:24 CEST 2008


Hello,

On 6/2/08, Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
>  >
>  > However, I'm tempted to reject that patch since for some time already,
>  > only YASM support has been supported, so having binaries built with
>  > NASM that cause some trouble is to be expected.
>  >
>  > Maybe a cleared statement or a configure test should be added to
>  > require YASM, but I doubt that it will please people, since IIRC,
>  > simple cases such as static lib on Linux and Windows x86 (that is, a
>  > large majority of x264's userbase) should work, thought it's mainly by
>  > luck.
>  >
>  > I'd prefer if Loren could take a decision about the problem of NASM's support.
>
>
> nasm works for me.

Then I must have made some confusion in my mind with platform-specific
limitations/bug, e.g. on OSX 10.4, yasm is required to build the
dynamic version of x264's lib (static version works fine).


So what do you say Loren, do you like that patch?

Guillaume
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