[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] AVISynth support

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:28:15PM +0200, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:29:18PM +0200, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> >>Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>>On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:45:07PM +0200, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> >>>>MSys doesn't use bash by default (which seem to be a new requirement in 
> >>>>FFMPEG).
> >>>Huh?  Since when do we require bash?  What is the problem?
> >>When I run the SVN configure script in MSys (that I never had a problem 
> >>with during the last 6 months), I get this error:
> >>
> >>Steve at LAPUX4 /C/Perso/Programmes/ffmpeg.svn
> >>$ ./configure
> >>./configure: exec: bash: not found
> >>
> >>It is caused by these lines at the beggining of the configure script:
> >>[...]
> >
> >These lines test the shell for compatibility.  What shell are you using
> >in MSys if not bash?
> 
> $ /bin/sh.exe --version
> GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i686-pc-msys)
> Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

You need bash >= 2.05b on MinGW, 2.04 is known to be broken.

Diego