[FFmpeg-devel] check Libraries before compiling!?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:31:21AM +0100, Ramon Hackbarth wrote:
> 
> yesterday I compiled ffmpeg with AAC decoders, everything worked
> fine I thought, but AAC decoders didn't work even they were
> compiled and - I thought - also working. It was the newest FAAD
> Library which depends on a newer libc6 version, which wasn't
> installed. I installed a newer libc6 version (and libfaad 2.6), but
> afterwards I had some problems and reinstalled the old version of
> libc6, but I left libfaad 2.6 (which doesn't work without newest
> libc6).
> Is it maybe possible to include a function which checks also if the
> library is working and not just if it's existing?

You could try patching configure around line 1250, but basically what
you describe is how you managed to break your own system.

Diego