[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] x264 and ffmpeg rebuild

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 07/06/12 21:36, Eric Bélanger wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Ionut Biru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> On 06/03/2012 06:52 PM, Ionut Biru wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just pushed in staging new updates for this two packages. We are doing
>>> this two in the same time.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> bump.
>>
>> there are still 42 packages that haven't been recompiled in the list.
>> If you don't want to maintain the packages anymore, drop them in AUR but
>> don't block the rebuild process.
>>
> 
> You might not have noticed but in ffmpeg 0.11, they removed a lot of
> functions and structs that were marked as deprecated in the ffmpeg in
> [extra] so any packages that still use that deprecated stuff won't
> build anymore unless they're patched. As expected, this will take more
> time than a simple rebuild. My remaining package (sox, electricsheep)
> don't build  and I haven't found any patches online. Is there
> documentation on how to port to the newer API? There are hints in the
> header files but I got stuck. Electricsheep build but doesn't work,
> probably because of the line I removed without replacing it (I don't
> know how to replace it), so I'll need to do more work on the patch. If
> someone knows about this stuff, I could post my current patches.
> 
> Eric
> 
>>
>> --
>> Ionuț
>>
>>
The website http://upstream-tracker.org provides some information about
changed headers.

http://upstream-tracker.org/compat_reports/ffmpeg/0.10.3_to_0.11/abi_compat_report.html

Then again I don't know which struct/function changed. I have tried to
rebuild some stuff for [community] and I think posting patches would be
useful. So we can spot general struct / function changes:


-- 
Jelle van der Waa



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