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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 09:42:42AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Mo, Jun 07, 2010 at 08:02:54 (CEST), Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 07:52:11AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >> void av_init_packet(AVPacket *pkt) av_weak_alias(av_init_packet);
> >> void av_init_packet(AVPacket *pkt)
> >> {
> >>     av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_WARNING, "diverting av_*_packet function calls to libavcodec. Recompile to improve performance\n");
> >>     av_init_packet(pkt);
> >
> > ff_internal_init_packet() and add one such to lavc.
> > Either way, we should make sure we have a solution the next time.
> > Since the @LIBAVFORMAT version is not accepted in lavc, does that
> > mean no matter what we do, we will always break ABI if we move code?!
> 
> if I understand you correctly, you not only consider ABI breakages
> between releases, but also between any svn revision? 

i do


> Then I fear yes.
> However, the break is already there since quite some time, and fixing it
> to have it compatible to ffmpeg 0.5 has (or at least should have)
> priority, IMO.

for future moves, is there a problem with moving the symbols and
updating the version script in the new home so it matches the version
of the old (@LIBAVFORMAT in lavc for the specific symbols)
?

for our case here this fails because we have libs that expect the symbols
with @LIBAVCODEC and ldso isnt smart enough but that wouldnt be if we had
updated the version script when the move happened.


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