[FFmpeg-devel] Symbol versioning failure on Android

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:33:13AM +0200, Martin Storsj? wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If building shared libraries on Android, there seems to be a problem with 
> symbol versioning. The fallback symbols in the previous library, defined 
> e.g. in libavcodec/opt.c should call the new ones in libavutil/opt.c. In 
> practice, they just call themselves, looping infinitely.
> 
> Does anyone have better insight into the symbol versioning stuff, that 
> could point out what could be going wrong?

I dont know the fine details of what is going wrong on android but
IMO the fundamental problem is that the bugs in the gnu linker prevent a clean
implementation of moving symbols between libs. And all these hacks with wrapers
calling themself and "magic" asm symbol versioning statements is something
that i must admit i was surprised works at all and i have no interrest in
finding even more insane workarounds of the gnu linker bugs that also work on
android.

It would be interresting to know if android could handle a sanely moved symbol,
that is one that during compile/link time was in one lib and during runtime
then was in another lib (with matching version of course)

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