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

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Jonathan Rosser
<jonathan.rosser at rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
> On 10/17/12 09:28, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> There were a few things that were in my mind, primarily around writing
> portable code:
>
> * Detect the presence of the 10 bit version in a configure.ac (the
> version number won't tell you this)

How is pkg-config supposed to tell you this?

>
> * Retrieve the location to dlopen() from (will every distro put it in
> the same place?)

Also, out of scope of pkg-config IMO. Could be implemented, but would
only make sense if you convinced upstream to do this so that
consistency across distribution is maintained

> Anyway - maybe I'm getting ahead of myself and simply having the 10 bit
> version available is good enough. I'm very happy that it now builds in
> the official package.

OK. Thanks for your comments.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard