proper way to link mplayer to shared ffmpeg , was Re: Bug#520113

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:24:50AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:11:31AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > ps: BTW at the time of 1.0rc2, AFAICR there was no flag
> > >   --disable-libswscale_so , so that was another reason
> > >  why I needed a direct patch into the Makefile
> > 
> > No, that option did already exist back then.
> 
> $ wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2
> $ tar xjf MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2 
> $ cd MPlayer-1.0rc2
> $ grep -i libswscale configure
> [no match]
> $ ./configure --help | grep -i libswscale
> [no match]

Sorry, indeed the option for libswscale was added later, but all the
other options for shared FFmpeg libs, i.e. --disable-libavcodec_a did
already exist back then.  So this hack would only have been necessary
for libswscale, not for all FFmpeg libs.

Of course the proper solution would have been adding that option to
configure, it's not hard.  You might also have asked me, I could have
implemented it in minutes and you would have had a proper patch to
extract from upstream in a day or so.

Diego
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