Hi there,
since vdr-1.7.3, VDR is compiled with the additional arguments -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE Plugins should be compiled with the same arguments as otherwise one might get unresolved symbols when loading the plugin. Consistently, in vdr-1.7.4 these defines have been added to the plugin part of Make.config.template. But that won't fix anything for the people who don't use a Make.config at all (those who do, need to check if something has changed in the template when updating). How could this problem be solved conveniently?
I'd opt for copying Make.config.template to Make.config if no Make.config exists yet. A good place to do this would be in "make include-dir". The documentation and UPDATE files should remind those who copy Make.config from an older release to fit in necessary changes.
Other options: * Additional file to include by VDR and plugin Makefiles with such "mandatory" defines - this somewhat contradicts the idea of Make.config.
* In the Makefile of each affected plugin, check for the presence of Make.config. If it's missing, check the VDR version and if required, add the defines - naah!
Cheers, Frank
Hi!
Sorry for digging out that old posting, but for my plugin I ran into that problem too.
I wonder why no other plugin authors shared there opinion and how they fix it. As I understand it every plugin must be changed whenever VDR introduces changes in that area and if the VDR compiling user doesn't use (and adopt) Make.config. IIRC we already had that when introducing the -fPIC option. So I think that the current system isn't a clean one.
So what do you think? Klaus?
2009/7/10 Frank Schmirler vdr@schmirler.de:
I opt for this one.
Regards, Andreas
On 28.10.2009 09:01, Andreas Mair wrote:
I guess this one got lost in the summer break...
My preferred solution to this would be if all plugins would include some global configuration into their makefiles for setting global default parameters for VDR and plugins. The best order would be to call such a Make.global before calling an existing Make.config, so that Make.config can still override these rules.
Until then, the only way is to add some version dependent defines before calling Make.config.
By the way: The current newplugin script also doesn't add largefile defines in case that no Make.config exists.
Cheers,
Udo
On 28.10.2009 20:44, Udo Richter wrote:
At some point in the past I said that I won't interfere with that whole Makefile, Make.config, Make.whatever stuff any more, because whatever we change, there will likely be somebody who wants it different ;-)
So if you agree on a patch, just send it.
By the way: The current newplugin script also doesn't add largefile defines in case that no Make.config exists.
Added for version 1.7.11.
Klaus
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