[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Handle BUILDSUF appropriately for non-posix systems

[François Revol]

> Hi,
> 
> Diego Biurrun said:
> > On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:49:32PM -0300, Ramiro Polla wrote:
> >>
> >> ./configure --build-suffix=-mingw
> >> yields files named like avutil-49-mingw.dll
> >>
> >> Attached patch names it avutil-mingw-49.dll
> >
> > I like this patch in principle, but I'm sceptical regarding the
> > usefulness of the BUILDSUF feature.  Does anybody use it?  What 
> > for?  Is
> > this some standard thing that people are used to from auto*?
> 
> I use it to tag my own builds and distingish my ffmpeg exes/dlls from 
> the
> ones
> that available from Cygwin Ports.
> I also tag my static builds with --build-suffix=-static
> 

I originally added this to build libs for the FFDecoder plugin for 
BeOS, so that upgrading ffmpeg itself wouldn't break the plugin.
I'd use .for_ffdecoder or something.

Fran?ois.