[Ffmpeg-devel] Problem building from snapshots

[Michel Bardiaux]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>> If you download the 'bare sources' snapshot and do a 'make distclean', 
>> version.h is removed, and configure makes it UNKNOWN.
> 
> Dunno what you refer to by "it", but configure does nothing to
> version.h.
> 
>> When the svn metadata are not present, version.sh should not be removed. 
>> by make distclean.
> 
> version.sh is not removed by make distclean, version.h is.
> 
> The information I gather from this confused report does not lead me to a
> reproducible problem.  It's all working fine and dandy here...

Yes, definitely not one of my best shows! Once more with feeling:

* download the 'bare sources' snapshot
* make distclean
=> version.h is removed
* configure
* make
=> new version.h with -rUNKNOWN

Hence version.h should not be removed when it is known that version.sh 
(invoked by the top Makefile) would result in a new version.h with 
-rUNKNOWN.

This does not impact my builds, but it has the unfortunate result that a 
user of the 'bare sources' snapshot, following all the recommended 
procedures including the distclean, ends up with an ffmpeg that reports 
-rUNKNOWN, which complicates support.

Hoping this is better.

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