[ATrpms-devel] Heads up: new libraw1394 coming

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 18:06 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:51:33AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > Just a heads up that a new libraw1394 should be coming Real Soon Now,
> > and it features merged support of both the ieee1394 and firewire stacks,
> > eliminating the need for building to a specific stack, so a forthcoming
> > Fedora libraw1394 build (likely libraw1394 2.0.0) will eliminate the
> > need for ATrpms to package its own libraw1394. Should probably hit
> > rawhide within a week, Fedora 8 and 9 a while after some testing.
> 
> thanks for the heads-up. Is this related to the libraw1394 upgrade
> from today in F8?

No, unrelated. The new libraw1394 in F8 fixes a segfault on exit from
dvgrab, specific to the juju firewire stack, no merged build just yet.

> And will applications require a rebuild,

Some will, yes. Among other things, there's going to be a soname bump,
and...

> or will the ABI remain the same?

...while most of the ABI will remain the same, some deprecated
functions/ioctls have been removed, which were apparently in use by
libdc1394 v1.0. The libdc1394 folks gave the changes the thumbs up
though, because they aren't used by libdc1394 v2.0.


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Jarod Wilson
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