[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libx264: support for BUILD >= 63
Jason Garrett-Glaser
darkshikari
Tue Sep 16 10:17:47 CEST 2008
> While ifdeffery in libx264.c doesn't look like a good idea due to the
> libx264 API instability, I think we could at least provide a check in
> the configure script to disable libx264 if the detected version isn't
> valid, looks nicer towards the user.
Bad idea--if the user explicitly enables something, and that thing
fails, configure should fail outright, not disable it. It does for
all other external libs, so it should for x264, too.
> And while we're at it we could assert(X264_BUILD == x264_build()) in
> the init code (assuming that function is implemented).
Bad idea too; x264 can and does make API modifications that do not
break backwards compatibility.
Dark Shikari
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