Bug#758203: FTBFS with libav11

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream

On 2014-08-15 07:12:20, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Package: vlc
> Version: 2.1.5-1
> Severity: Important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it seems vlc fails to build against libav11 because of an overly
> strict configure check. Can we patch out that check?
> 
> checking for mad_bit_init in -lmad... yes
> checking if linker supports -Bsymbolic... yes
> checking for AVCODEC... yes
> configure: error: libavcodec versions 56 and later are not supported yet.
> ==> config.log <==
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

For vlc 2.2 there is [1] and also [2] and [3] (maybe there are more).
Applying the patch from [1] to vlc 2.1.5 works fine and makes vlc build
against libav 11.

The libav using code emits some warnings about deprecated functions, so
I'm not sure if we need [2] and [3] and similar patches. I'll leave that
to someone with more knowledge about libav and the vlc code base.

Cheers

[1] http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=commit;h=4ed2079b77b8aeb6d7885cc9828a90290018a7a4
[2] http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=commit;h=18fbf7fd17a0f4e9cabcc2e34ac54b210ba08b27
[3] http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=commit;h=3bbe18fd5f1e958cef0f8b3a7a847fc0ae082a4d
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Sebastian Ramacher
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