Re: The reason why gst-libav is broken on x86_64

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> FYI, I investigated the problem with gst-libav on x86_64, and it turns
> out that it began when we updated nettle from 2.7 to 3.1, the latter of
> which is configured with --enable-fat.  For details, see my post on
> bug-nettle:
>
>   http://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/nettle-bugs/2015/003389.html

Interesting, thanks for investigating.  Followup at
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2015-06/msg00010.html>.

> We could work around the problem by removing the --enable-fat configure
> option, although it will entail a lot of rebuilding.  While we're at it,
> we should also update to nettle-3.1.1.

If we don’t use --enable-fat, then we get non portable binaries,
don’t we?

Would it work to use nettle-2.7 for instance for gst-libav?

Thanks,
Ludo’.