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

[Baptiste Coudurier]

On 05/04/2011 03:10 PM, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> 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.

pkg-config is not present on OSX, and difficult to install, requiring
it for SDL is not needed. If there is pkg-config, fine, but if not use
sdl-config.

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