[FFmpeg-devel] Symbol versioning failure on Android

[Benjamin Larsson]

On 12/13/2010 03:01 PM, Martin Storsj? wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Martin Storsj? wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:07:19PM +0200, Martin Storsj? wrote:
>>>> The even more straightforward solution would be to add an option 
>>>> --disable-symver - then it's totally up to the user if he wants it or not. 
>>>> The problem then, of course, is for the user to figure out that he 
>>>> actually needs this (it isn't totally obvious what's wrong when the 
>>>> application hangs when calling a symbol with multiple versions, where the 
>>>> fallback calls itself).
>>> Add a guard variable that detects that case.
>>> Note: might be tricky without causing issues with multi-threading.
>> Hmm, it might be good, but I'm not sure if it's worth littering all the 
>> fallback symbols with such code, and it feels like overkill (if done 
>> properly not to interfere with multithreading).
>>
>> Yet another suggestion attached, this one adds the option 
>> --disable-symver.
> Anyone opposed to applying this one? This way, we do no ugly magic or 
> detection or anything such, and it's totally up to the person building it 
> to disable it. And if the android runtime linker starts supporting it at 
> some point in the future, users can stop using this option if they want to 
> target the newer versions.
>
> // Martin

I like this one. We can add some docs for how to compile for Android. It
is non trivial anyway.

MvH
Benjamin Larsson