[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] set FONTCONFIG_PATH relative to ffmpeg binary, if it is a static build

Nicolas George george at nsup.org
Mon Feb 17 14:15:51 CET 2014


Le nonidi 29 pluviôse, an CCXXII, Helmut Tessarek a écrit :
> >>> +	getcwd (curdir, PATH_MAX);
> > Is it necessary? A quick test shows that fontconfig can handle relative 
> > paths just fine.
> Yes, this was necessary, otherwise fontconfig looks for the fontconfig path
> relative to the path where ffmpeg was started from and not relative to the
> ffmpeg binary.
> Took my quite some time to figure that out.

There is something fishy about this: getcwd() will return you the path where
ffmpeg was started from too. There is no reliable portable way of finding
the path of the binary that started a program.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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