[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]Silence a warning if pkg_config is not available

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Wednesday 2011-05-04 08:25:40 -0700, Baptiste Coudurier encoded:
> On 05/04/2011 06:27 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 04:07:32PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> >> On 05/02/2011 03:57 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >>> Hi!
> >>>
> >>> Attached patch silences a warning if configure is run on a system where 
> >>> pkg_config is not installed.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thanks !
> >> FYI SDL detection is broken on OSX because of the change to pkg-config.
> > 
> > could you elaborate? i dont have osx and am not sure what "the change"
> > is, do you mean the
> > configure: use pkg-config helpers
> > or
> > configure: improve pkg-config support
> > or both or something else?
> 
> The commit that change SDL detection to use pkg-config instead of
> sdl-config.

Why? Doesn't OSX support pkg-config? Or is the SDL version installed
which doesn't support it (but only supports sdl-config)?

In general using pkg-config when available is preferred over
foo-config.
-- 
FFmpeg = Fiendish and Funny Merciless Powerful Evangelical Guru