[Bug 763576] filesprovider: Do not expect Android libs to have version-info symlinks

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763576

--- Comment #8 from Sebastian Dröge (slomo) <slomo at coaxion.net> ---
(In reply to Marcin Lewandowski from comment #7)
> Hm it seems to be not that trivial, not all of the libraries are based on
> autotools, so autoreconf is not enough. I would have needed patching all of
> their individual build systems which will add some effort in maintaining
> that.
> 
> Maybe better solution would have been to add Android-specific behaviour to
> cerbero that if it finds .so.* file it will take it and store as .so in the
> tarball? It should still work and it's more universal.

The soname stored inside the library would be wrong then, and would have to be
fixed up first otherwise.

> Thanks for the hint about linking, unfortunately one of these libraries is
> proprietary and AFAIK I am not allowed to statically link LGPL and
> proprietary software and I want to respect that.

AFAIU you are as long as you provide a way to relink everything with modified
versions of the LGPL code. I.e. you need to provide object files or static
libraries for your proprietary code at least.

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