[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 488913] Move to a saner ffmpeg checkout system

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------- Comment #8 from Edward Hervey  2007-11-06 07:07 UTC -------
make dist (and most importantly make distcheck) allows us to:
* Generate a tarball with all the required files for a release, which IS
distributed as a tarball.
* using distcheck, it will copy over all the files that would go into the
tarball into a separate directory, build it, run the tests in order to make
sure that everything required to build the release will be included in the
tarball.

This is NOT optional, there will be NO release if we can't easily (1) make
tarballs of all required files including the ffmpeg checkout and (2) check if
all required files are included in the release.

One idea might be to create a specific dist make option in
gst-libs/ext/Makefile.am that checks out a clean checkout of the specified
revision so that the top-level 'make dist(check)' gets all those files.


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