Bug#758350: libgroove: Use pkg-config to determine FFmpeg linker flags

[Andrew Kelley]

Thank you for your patch Andreas.

This library has been developed exclusively against libav. I have only
tested this library against ffmpeg one time, and when I did, it segfaulted.

I'm having a hard time understanding why I should make the package and
build script more complicated for an unsupported library that is not even
in experimental yet.

Please close the bug and re-open when ffmpeg is in experimental or unstable.

Regards,
Andrew


On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun <
andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Source: libgroove
> Version: 4.1.1+dfsg-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> Usertags: reintroducing-ffmpeg
>
> Dear maintainer,
>
> I am working on reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian [1-2].
>
> In order to make FFmpeg co-installable with Libav, the libraries were
> renamed to lib*-ffmpeg. Thus using linker flags like '-lavcodec' doesn't
> work with the FFmpeg packages.
>
> To get the correct linking flags for both FFmpeg and Libav, one can
> (and should) use pkg-config.
>
> Attached patch achieves that for this package. Please apply it to
> facilitate building your package with FFmpeg in Debian.
>
> If you want to facilitate this even further, you can also add
> lib*-ffmpeg-dev alternatives to the Libav build-dependencies.
>
> While the FFmpeg package is still waiting in the NEW queue [3], it can
> already be built from the git repository [4].
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas
>
>
> 1: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/07/msg01010.html
> 2: https://bugs.debian.org/729203
> 3: https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/ffmpeg_7:2.3.1-1.html
> 4: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/ffmpeg.git
>
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