Bootstrapping libav on a new architecture

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> m68k currently has no libpostproc-dev and friends, built from src:libav.
> How do you recommend to bootstrap this, considering several (at least
> four) build dependencies of libav, all codecs or something like that,
> build-depend on libav’s binaries again? Can libav be built without any
> of those plugins at first, to get the B-D of the full libav (as shipped
> in Debian sid/main) built?

I'm a bit confused now. libav itself does not build depend on
libpostproc-dev, and if it did, then that would be a bug IMO.

In debian/experimental, libpostproc is no longer built by libav, but a
source package on its own:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpostproc.html

Background: libpostproc has been removed from libav, and TBH, I'd
rather remove it from debian. However, a number of packages in debian
still build-depend on it, so it does make sense to still have a
standalone, libav independent libpostproc.

You could therefore use that source package for bootstrapping purposes
as well, but again, I did not really understand what the actual
problem is yet.


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard