[Ffmpeg-devel] Bug in libavutil Makefile (or maybe just mystupidity? Be gentle...)

[Michel Bardiaux]

The Wanderer wrote:
> Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> 
>> Alexander Strasser wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> 
> 
>>>> You're right of course. I will try various tests - but as
>>>> Napoleon said, "Not tonight, Josephine" :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> I think you had exactly the same problem as the previous poster
>>> where the LIB Makefile var got set to a ms lib path. So if my patch
>>> did work it should work for you know with configure from latest
>>> CVS. Would be nice if you could test that and report back.
> 
> 
>> Test 2, static libs.
>>
>> make distclean
>> ./configure  --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-strip 
>> --enable-memalign-hac
> 
> 
> (Presumably this last was a copy-and-pasting typo.)
> 
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> Compiles OK, but installs only ffmpeg.exe (not the libs, not the
>> headers) and same problem running the ffmpeg.exe.
> 
> 
> Unless there's some obscure reason, not obvious from scanning configure,
> why the MinGW Makefile wouldn't contain the relevant targets: you want
> 'make installlib' to install the libraries and headers. (Does the other
> way, under "test 1", actually install both libraries and headers? I
> wouldn't expect so from looking at configure. If it does, 

It does.

> then the
> effect is probably derived from a definitional difference between
> "shared" and "static".)

Fixing that is not just cosmetic; until its clarified, there is little 
incentive to anyone to improve the doc...

> 
> I'm not really in a position to even attempt to investigate the other
> problem.
> 


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