[FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-cvslog] avutil/cuda_check: avoid pointlessly exporting same symbol from two libraries

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:36 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> No, this entire mess with duplicated ff_ symbols is specifically to
> >>> avoid having to include it in the ABI.
> >>
> >> But old libavcodec does not work with new libavutil now or am I wrong?
> >
> > Is that really a thing we expect or advertise to work? It does not seem
> > sane and I'd expect a lot of other things to explode.
>
> We don't "advertise" it but it is certainly expected from any half-sane
> project.

Its not a problem in any "normal" case. No ff_ symbols are exported,
so dynamic linking would never use it.
What might not work in the future is mixing static libraries of
different versions, but anyone that does something like that is truely
insane anyway.

- Hendrik