[FFmpeg-devel] Question about "make distclean" after "git pull"

Mats Peterson matsp888 at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 18 12:46:32 CET 2016


On 02/18/2016 12:45 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
> L'octidi 28 pluviôse, an CCXXIV, Nicolas George a écrit :
>> 								   There may
>> have been cases where forgetting distclean would cause bugs more subtle than
>> that, but I do not remember the specifics.
>
> Just found one: .d files contained the full path of headers for an old
> version of libvpx that I just removed, they caused the compiler to still use
> them for some reason, and that caused ABI incompatibility with the lib.
>
> Regards,
>
Ouch. Thanks for the "use case".

Mats



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