[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 363363] Please permit building against an external ffmpeg

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  GStreamer | gst-ffmpeg | Ver: HEAD CVS


Jan Schmidt changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED
   Target Milestone|HEAD                        |0.10.3




------- Comment #21 from Jan Schmidt  2006-12-14 23:38 UTC -------
Even with ERROR_CFLAGS="" I still can't get it to build, but the system install
in Ubuntu Edgy is older than our current snapshot.

I'm still very dubious about this functionality - every time we update FFMpeg
it costs someone a week or so to make sure everything is still working, and I
get the feeling that this is just going to make our bug reports harder to
manage. I know we rely on plenty of other external libraries, but none of those
are as unstable in their API/ABI as FFMpeg (except maybe bloody faad). 

Be warned, I'm planning to close every bug report that mentions "System
Install" with a WONTFIX until it's demonstrated that it also occurs against our
local snapshot.

Committed:

        * Makefile.am:
        * configure.ac:
        * ext/ffmpeg/Makefile.am:
        * ext/ffmpeg/gstffmpeg.c:
        * ext/ffmpeg/gstffmpegdemux.c:
        * ext/libpostproc/Makefile.am:
        * ext/libpostproc/gstpostproc.c:

        Allow building against an external FFMpeg install. Fixes: #363363
        Patch by: Josselin Mouette <joss at debian dot org>
        When built against an external install, the plugin description will
        say "system install" instead of "local snapshot"


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