I received a user report about ABI breakage between ffmpeg 3.0 and 3.3
through the distribution commenting system
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:libs/ffmpeg :
"""I'm having a library compiled against ffmpeg 3.3 on OBS. It
uses the avcodec_{send|receive}packet() functions. On my local
machine I still have ffmpeg 3.0 installed. Updating the library
doesnt trigger updating libav* since soversion hasnt changed. If
the library now attempts to use avcodecsend_packet() I receive
SIGBUS."""
I am posting to this list as the "fix" for this problem is not a patch,
but a change in review process.
Upon closer inspection of the ffmpeg source, the problem the user
has experienced has two causes:
1.
Failure to properly do ELF versioning. avcodec_receive_packet was added
in commit 7fc329e2dd6226dfecaa4a1d7adf353bf2773726. This commit bumped
the minor version number, but completely ignored adding the necessary
versions into libavcodec/libavcodec.v. What should have been added:
LIBAVCODEC_57.37 {
global:
avcodec_receive_packet;
avcodec_send_packet; /* etc. */
} LIBAVCODEC_57.36;
Instead, all symbols just always get added into a symbol group that
existed previously (LIBAVCODEC_57). This defeats package management
utilities like rpm which only look at the symbol groups and not
individual symbols.
Fixing the .v file with a patch now won't help remedy the situation on
existing systems; however, on future patch submissions, this action of
editing the .v file needs to be remembered when functions are
added or removed.
2.
The layout of struct AVCodec changed. Four function pointers were
inserted in the middle, shifting void (*flush) to a new address. The
size of AVCodec also changed, which would have required a full MAJOR
bump.
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