[FFmpeg-devel] Update on lbos

[Måns Rullgård]

Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:36:35PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:
>> 
>> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:47:16PM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
>> >> Hi Diego,
>> >> 
>> >> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> >> [...]
>> >> > Here are some comments:
>> >> > 
>> >> > In the Makefile there is
>> >> > 
>> >> >> CFLAGS=$(OPTFLAGS) -I$(BUILD_ROOT) -I$(SRC_PATH)/include \
>> >> >>        -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_ISOC9X_SOURCE
>> >> > 
>> >> > Hmm, are some of the -D flags gcc-specific?
>> >> Again, you are right... I just copied them from ffmpeg Makefiles (I
>> >> suspect that defining some constants will not break anything, but
>> >> I'll try to enable these defines only if gcc is detected).
>> >
>> > GNU-libc-specific, not gcc related.
>> 
>> Quite so.  There is some POSIX getconf magic one can use to retrieve
>> those flags, but it never works in practise.
>
> Are you sure? I suspect it works really well on crap like Solaris
> that's broken in the default config but nonetheless claims POSIX
> conformance. It would at least be worth a try.

I can't be bothered to install Solaris, only to discover it's still as
broken as it always was.  I tired of that a few years ago.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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