Re: [ITA] libvpx

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca>]

On 2023-10-27 09:19, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 26/10/2023 16:56, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I have built an updated release of libvpx with the CVE fixes included.
>> This is a Google WebM project which does not use autotools or libtool, so the 
>> last maintainer did their own cygvpx dll build and relinked the executables.
> 
> Taking a brief look over the cygport, if you're going to abstract out the 
> soversion, you can use 'declare' to evaluate variable names
> 
> e.g.
> 
> ABI=8
> PKG_NAMES="... libvpx${ABI} ..."
> declare libvpx${ABI}_SUMMARY="$SUMMARY (runtime)"
> declare libvpx${ABI}_CONTENTS="usr/bin/cygvpx-${ABI}.dll"

Thanks Jon,

I never realized that, so will now be using it in a number of packages where ABI 
changes occur.

>> The current test programs do not relink against the unstripped dll, possibly 
>> because of their sizes requiring > 32 bit offsets, so I am no longer relinking 
>> the test programs with the dll, only the distributed utilities.
>>
>> $ du libvpx-1.13.1-1.x86_64/{build,inst/usr/bin}/*.{dll,exe}
>> 23M     libvpx-1.13.1-1.x86_64/build/cygvpx-8.dll
>> 26M     libvpx-1.13.1-1.x86_64/build/test_intra_pred_speed.exe
>> 158M    libvpx-1.13.1-1.x86_64/build/test_libvpx.exe
>> 33M     libvpx-1.13.1-1.x86_64/build/test_rc_interface.exe
>> 3.3M    libvpx-1.13.1-1.x86_64/build/vpxdec.exe
>> 3.5M    libvpx-1.13.1-1.x86_64/build/vpxenc.exe
>> 3.4M    libvpx-1.13.1-1.x86_64/inst/usr/bin/cygvpx-8.dll
>> 680K    libvpx-1.13.1-1.x86_64/inst/usr/bin/vpxdec.exe
>> 700K    libvpx-1.13.1-1.x86_64/inst/usr/bin/vpxenc.exe
>>
>> With codec performance tests disabled, this build also downloads 1.4GB of test 
>> data files from Google under:
>>
>> https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/test_data/libvpx/
>>
>> which we presumably would prefer not to include in the src package, to 
> 
> Yeah, including it seems a bad idea.
> 
>> run tests which take 2.75-3.5 hours out of a 3.75-4.5 hour build, with 5 
>> failures in scallywag CI and 2 failures locally out of 1596 tests, shown in 
>> the attached log, so I have questions into the upstream WebM libvpx project 
>> about those.
>>
>> Full scallywag logs are available at:
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=7148&srcpkg=libvpx&user=Brian+Inglis
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I've added this to your packages.

Cheers!

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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