[FFmpeg-devel] Symbol versioning failure on Android

[Martin Storsjö]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> 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)

I think the problem in our case is that the symbols have different version 
depending on which library they reside in, there's no guarantee that 
symbol at LIBAVCODEC42 is compatible with symbol at LIBAVUTIL52. The wrappers 
provide the previous version, for compatibility.

// Martin