I'm confused(*)
I was compiling something that uses /usr/include/x265.h and it failed.
It hasn't failed like this before and it hasn't changed lately. The
thing it was having trouble with was this member of x265_api
(wrapped for this posting):
int (*encoder_encode)(x265_encoder*, x265_nal**,
uint32_t*, x265_picture*, x265_picture**);
The last element is different than it used to be, it used to be * not **.
And ** doesn't really make sense. In the hope that the underlying library
wasn't using this definition, I did a typecast where it was used and
the compilation succeeded and the program worked. But:
I wondered if this was some typo ocurring weirdly. I compared x265.h
with the one from a prior version (which I still had in the pacman
cache) and there were lots of changes, some probably just for internal
purposes, but some with changes to calling sequences that surely must
break things that use them.
I asked pacman where the code came from (pacman -Qi) and looked there:
https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git/src/master/source/x265.h
and that file does not have this change. (It has others, including at least
one that seems problematic).
The version of /usr/include/x265 on my system is dated Oct 3 2024 and
that matches the "build date" reported by pacman. The modification
history in the bitbucket link above has an entry signficantly dated
October 4 that says "Reverted the api changes." I infer that the change
that affected me was, for lack of a better word, corrected. But
evidently Arch hasn't picked it up. (I did a system update today.) Maybe
Oct 3 is the last released date, I dunno. That would be odd if so.
I don't know what answer I'm looking for here, maybe none, but thought
I would mention it. At length ;)
-mm-
(*)always
