On Montag 15 Mai 2006 18:06, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Stefan Lucke wrote: > > On Sonntag 14 Mai 2006 17:58, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > >> C.Y.M wrote: > >>> I noticed that some of the shared objects created in ./PLUGINS/lib have a name > >>> like libsubvdr-*.so.$(APIVERSION). (from softdevice plugin). The following > >> Why does the softdevice plugin create such files in the first place? > >> What is it with the 'sub' part? > > > > Hm, thats because we have (optionally) a separate lib for each output method, > > and we do load them dynamic. The reason for this is, that all methods could > > be build (on a build system), but not all additional libs required for a specific > > output method need to be present at a target system. Sound complicated. > > > > When linking all into one plugin lib, all libs must be present. > > But now libvdr-softdevice.so.1.4.0, has no reference to X11 libs or DirectFB libs. > > > > Perhaps we should make the 'sub', part of plugin name, but then vdr > > tries to load such a lib as a plugin 'vdr -h' I guess. > > Well, if a plugin needs further dynamically loaded libs of its own, > I guess it is indeed the easiest way to just copy them into the same > directory as the plugin's own file. > > However, I'm not too happy with the "sub" naming convention. > > How about, if a plugin named 'foo' needs its own lib > 'bar', we name the files > > libvdr-foo.so.1.4.0 <-- the 'foo' library called by VDR > libfoo-bar.so.1.4.0 <-- the 'bar' library called by 'foo' That sounds reasonable. It would translate for softdevice to: vdr's plugin: libvdr-softdevice.so.1.4.0 our sub-libs: libsoftdevice-[xv|fb|dfb|vidix|shm].so.1.4.0 The only intention for 'libsubvdr' was not to match as as a plugin. Your suggestion looks better. Is it possible to get acces to the path name specified with -L option ? vdr -L SEARCH_PATH -P "softdevice -L OTHER_SEARCH_PATH" So in case these paths are the same, it would be nice to drop one argument for softdevice. > > (of course 'foo' can have any number of 'bar's). > > Ok, basically it doesn't matter if VDR's Makefile just copies > $(PLUGINDIR)/lib/lib*-*.so.$(APIVERSION), but it's always good to > have a common naming convention, and I'd like to document this in > PLUGINS.html. > > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > > -- Stefan Lucke
