[Ffmpeg-devel] Recent change in configure causes error message in MSys/MinGW

[Dean Bender]

On 3/30/07, M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:09:03PM -0400, Jonathon Elwood wrote:
> >> There was a recent change to 'configure' that is now causing a Windows box
> >> to appear in MSys/MinGW.  The box says "ffmpeg-conf-17246-3728-29106.exe has
> >> encountered a problem and needs to close".  I know this is a question
> >> specific to MSys/MinGW and this may not be the appropriate place to post
> >> this problem.  If there is another list that would be more appropriate
> >> please let me know.
> >>
> >> There is a note here stating that this was done intentionally.  I don't know
> >> what this script is doing, so I'm not sure how important it is.  Is this the
> >> way it should work with MSys/MinGW now or is there a library I'm missing
> >> that will stop this error from occurring?  Also, the note says to click
> >> "Don't send" and ignore it.  Does that mean that if I ignore this error
> >> ./configure will still work fine?
> >
> > Is there a way we can make this note more explicit so that people
> > understand it?
>
> Is there a way we can make people more intelligent?  They wouldn't
> need to be really brilliant or anything, only enough to grasp the idea
> that messages being printed might be relevant.
>
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> M?ns Rullg?rd
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No this isn't the problem of not having intelligence. He actually was
able to find out where in the configure script this is happening. This
is one of those silly moments we encounter time to time while
learning. So sit back and enjoy the show veterans ^^.