Bug#667573: [x264-devel] Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> Am 17.10.2012 10:09, schrieb Jonathan Rosser:
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>> I've built this package and can confirm that the library works using a
>> dlopen() approach.
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> I've seen Reinhard has already implemented this in the Debian package, so it
> merely needs to get documented properly. Thanks!

Yeah, and perhaps a wrapper script, which should then get properly documented.

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>> I was wondering about pkg-config support for the 10 bit library, a
>> second .pc file looks like it could come from a bit of search/replace on
>> the original.
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> Aren't the 8bit and 10bit libraries ABI- and API-compatible? Then one could
> build against the 8bit-variant and load the 10bit-variant at run-time with a
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH hack. Thus we wouldn't need a second pkg-config file.

The fact that Jonathan confirms that dlopen()'ing the second library
works confirms that both libraries are ABI compatible for practical
reasons. Jonathan, what problem would a 2nd pkg-config file solve?

> Or are we talking about static linking here?

I am not convinced that we should invest any effort in supporting
static linking in the Debian x264 package.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard