[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] configure: produce useful uninstalled pc files.

[Clément Bœsch]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 09:23:11AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> The old files were scattered in several directories,
> with an unusual name, but dependencies to the usual name,
> and relative paths.
> 
> The new files are regrouped in a singled directory
> (doc/examples/pc-uninstalled) with their usual name
> and more absolute paths.
> 
> With this change, it becomes possible to compile the examples
> with the ffmpeg build tree by setting the environment variable:
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=pc-uninstalled
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas George <nicolas.george at normalesup.org>
> ---
>  configure |   12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 

Mmh I think this will need some kind of README or doc/examples.txt for
common usages. ATM, as a developer I'm doing a:

    ./configure [...] --prefix=`pwd`/tmp-install && make -j20 && make install

And in the doc/examples directory:

    PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/proj/ffmpeg/tmp-install/lib/pkgconfig make

I would expect users (in the future) to do a:

   cp -r /usr/share/ffmpeg/examples ffmpeg-examples
   cd ffmpeg-examples
   make

Of course some users are picking the files from git and it would be nice
to have a friendly way of exploiting these examples, so your patch makes
sense to me.

Anyway, I support the idea, with some nit though: I'm not fond of
"pc-uninstalled" name, what about just "doc/examples/pkgconfig"?

Summary: the patch looks good to me if it works, assuming a simple
doc/examples/README describing the "developer" procedure and eventually a
rename of the pc-uninstalled directory.

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-- 
Clément B.
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