[FFmpeg-devel] patch for x32 for libpostproc

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 08:13:48AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 08:18:57AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> >> On 05.09.2014, at 03:46, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> >> >>> At the end of the day, I need a source tarball that contains
> >> >>> maintained sources of a stand-alone libpostproc. I don't care too much
> >> >>> how it is created, as long as it doesn't result in code-duplication
> >> >>> with existing sources in Debian.
> >> >>
> >> >> would it work if libpostproc could be build and installed
> >> >> standalone from ffmpeg git / ffmpeg release tarballs?
> >> >
> >> > That would be exactly the code-duplication I referred to in the text
> >> > you've quoted.
> >>
> >> Combined with a release script doing rm of libav*?
> >> I think the problem is that libpostproc just isn't a viable stand-alone program, mostly due to complete lack of stand-alone testability not to mention test infrastructure.
> >> Keeping the separate git up-to-date certainly is an option but involves extra effort (though a lot less than making libpostproc testable stand-alone).
> >> I don't see a good way to split the libraries into separate repositories that does not involve either at least maintaining configure in each or seriously harming bisecting/regression testing.
> >> Release scripts that generate multiple tarballs seems more realistic than splitting the repository, in case that sounds like helpful to anyone...
> >
> > Heres a proof of concept updated libpostproc
> >
> > https://github.com/michaelni/FFmpeg/tree/separated_libpostproc
> >
> > this is simply a clone of ffmpeg with everything unneeded
> > droped and the build system from the libpostproc repository
> > it builds successfully but is completely untested beyond that
> >
> > It seems the old buildsystem lacks HAVE_MMX*_INLINE support, this
> > would need to be added, as well as updating README and all that as
> > well as testing
> 
> That repo looks promising. However, the README and installations
> instructions still refer to FFmpeg which seems rather confusing to me.
> Also, the licensing needs to be clarified. AFAIUI, libpostproc is GPL
> only, so adding a LGPL license is also confusing at best.

right, yes, ive removed them, COPYING* still contains to the GPL so
that should do

ive also fixed the MMX/SSE2 build, its still completey untested
though beyond a simple "make"

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