[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] libnemesi support in mplayer

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:44:51PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:34:30PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > > can't you rename those symbols?
> > 
> > moving from
> > 
> > rtsp_*
> > 
> > to mp_rtsp_ and nm_rtsp_
> > 
> > would be a bit annoying.
> > 
> > Maybe I could use a preprocessor trick to add mp_ to the native rtsp
> > calls...
> 
> Well, if nemesi is supposed to be a standalone library, giving it a
> proper "namespace" so it is very, very unlikely to ever cause name
> clashes would be a really good idea...

Indeed, all too many libs fail to do this... I remember a long time
ago dealing with a bug (in another project) from libsoundfile
exporting a symbol named "dsp". My app worked fine until someone tried
to link it on a distro where libSDL pulled in libsoundfile...

Rich