[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] restoring binary compatibility with ffmpeg 0.5

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 09:01:10PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> writes:
> 
> > On So, Jun 06, 2010 at 21:51:27 (CEST), M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >
> >>> In any case, find below the 'best' fix, that admittedly only works on
> >>> gnu platforms. Michael, please comment if you prefer the half fix that
> >>> fixes the issue on gcc/gas platforms (and doesn't regress on others) or
> >>> bumping major of libavformat.
> >>
> >> We _already_ have a regression, which we unfortunately didn't discover
> >> until now.  Leaving it broken on some platforms while fixing others is
> >> simply not acceptable.
> >
> > Actually, a third way to solve the issue would be to move the affected
> > symbols back to libavcodec. How about that?
> 
> s/libavcodec/libavformat/ methinks.
> 
> Not acceptable.  The reasons for moving them to libavcodec still
> stand.  Some libavcodec interfaces use AVPacket, so the related code
> must be there too, or we'd end up with a (loose) dependency of
> libavcodec on libavformat, something we can't have.

we can duplicate the symbols and code in lavf under #if

i can probably also fix ldso but i wont look into this before my previous
fixes ended up in some ldso tree somewhere that is used by someone.


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