[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] build: fix make checkheaders in out-of-tree builds

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 10:52 PM, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/23/2016 6:44 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> On 23.01.2016 22:39, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
>>> On 1/23/2016 9:36 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>>>> Do you have a better idea?
>>>
>>> Yes, don't do it, full stop.
>>
>> I could just as well suggest you to not use such weird environments.
>>
>>> Is the feature here (bit exact builds out of tree) worth
>>> all the hacks?
>>
>> The hacks are only for MSVC.
>> It's also not only about bitexactness, but also about the usefulness
>> of the created debugging information.
>>
>>> In my gut: no. Several others have expressed the same opinion.
>>
>> Several others have expressed a different opinion.
>
> Guts and opinions aside, this is still broken for some.
> Either it's fixed for everyone, or fully reverted.

The hastly pushed fix doesn't actually work, all my MSVC fate boxes
are still broken, ie.
http://fatebeta.ffmpeg.org/report/x86_32-msvc14-dll-windows-native/20160123234847

Lets just revert this entire batch and re-try after proper testing and review.

- Hendrik