Bug#750817: ITP: x265 -- x265 HEVC Encoder

[Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com>]

Hi,

On 10.06.2014 02:06, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> I took a first look at the package, and it builds a shared library by
> default (good). Unfortunately, it doesn't provide a proper SONAME:
>
> $ objdump -p libx265.so | grep SONAME
>    SONAME               libx265.so

It does have a proper SONAME, when I'm building it (with default options):
$  objdump -p libx265.so | grep SONAME
  SONAME               libx265.so.22

How does your x265/build/linux/x265_config.h look like?
It should contain:
#ifndef X265_CONFIG_H
#define X265_CONFIG_H

/* Defines generated at build time */

/* Incremented each time public API is changed, X265_BUILD is used as
 * the shared library SONAME on platforms which support it. It also
 * prevents linking against a different version of the static lib */
#define X265_BUILD 22

#endif

The only strange thing is that the generated libx265.so.22 is a symlink 
to libx265.so.1.1, but I guess this doesn't really matter, as long as 
libx265.so.22 is there.

> This makes me wonder if it's worth building it as shared library in
> debian as this point, or if we wouldn't be better of with a static
> library only. I wonder what is upstream's take on this?

I would appreciate it if a shared library would be build, so that other 
programs (like FFmpeg) can use it.

Best regards,
Andreas