Compilation problems with libtheora

Hi there,

I'm trying to compile libtheora 1.0 beta 3 on a Solaris machine.

The command line is simply ./configure -C --disable-examples.

This bombs with the following error:

gcc -shared -Wl,-h -Wl,libtheoraenc.so.1 -o .libs/libtheoraenc.so.1.0.0  .libs/cpu.o 
.libs/dct_decode_mmx.o .libs/dsp_mmx.o .libs/dsp_mmxext.o .libs/recon_mmx.o .libs/idct_mmx.o 
.libs/fdct_mmx.o .libs/dct_encode.o .libs/encode.o .libs/encoder_huffman.o .libs/encoder_idct.o 
.libs/encoder_toplevel.o .libs/encoder_quant.o .libs/encapiwrapper.o .libs/blockmap.o 
.libs/dct.o .libs/dct_decode.o .libs/frarray.o .libs/frinit.o .libs/mcomp.o .libs/misc_common.o 
.libs/pb.o .libs/pp.o .libs/reconstruct.o .libs/scan.o .libs/dsp.o  -R/opt/local/lib -logg -L/opt
/local/lib -lc 

Text relocation remains                 	referenced
    against symbol		    offset	in file
.rodata (section)                   0x55      	.libs/dct_decode_mmx.o
.rodata (section)                   0x5f      	.libs/dct_decode_mmx.o
.rodata (section)                   0x108     	.libs/dct_decode_mmx.o
.rodata (section)                   0x112     	.libs/dct_decode_mmx.o
.rodata (section)                   0x1df     	.libs/dct_decode_mmx.o
.rodata (section)                   0x1e6     	.libs/dct_decode_mmx.o
.rodata (section)                   0x1f3     	.libs/dct_decode_mmx.o
.rodata (section)                   0x1fa     	.libs/dct_decode_mmx.o
ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

If I add either of the following to ./configure then the error goes away:

--disable-encode
--disable-shared

From what I've been able to figure out there is a problem with the shared library portion for whatever reason.

The fix seems to be to pass -fPIC to gcc which you will notice is missing on the command line just before the error is thrown. I've not been able to figure out how to pass -fPIC to gcc to see if it alleviates the situation.

How can I do this?

thanks in advance,

alan