[gst-devel] ffmpeg troubles

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 10:42, Jan Schmidt wrote:

> When I was playing with CVS earlier, I found that:
> a) The code in gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg/Makefile.am for patching the ffmpeg tree
> doesn't work for me. I changed it to:
>         @for PATCH in $(PATCHES); do \
>         patch -p0 -N -r rejects < "$(srcdir)/$$PATCH" || true; \
>         done
> b) Now, it patches the ffmpeg tree every time I run make... adding a new
> copy of the entire configure.ac file (and others) to the end each time.
> 
> We need a way to ensure that the ffmpeg tree only gets patched once when it
> is checked out.
> 
> J.

One of the reasons I wanted to move to gst-ffmpeg was precisely to fix
silly crap like this.  As for a solution, I suggest we use quilt.  If
nobody objects, I'll put that in right away :)

Thomas

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