[FFmpeg-user] Building ffmpeg with vid.stab on Mac OS 10.8 anyone?

[Robert Krüger]

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Robert Krüger <krueger at lesspain.de> wrote:
> > On May 3, 2013 4:23 AM, "Timothy Gu" <timothygu99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The next time you had an configure error, try to look at config.log.
> Most
> >> time it will give you a error message.
> >>
> > Thanks for the hint but I did. It was the error message I posted.
> >
>
> The error message you posted was the output from configure. What
> Timothy was explaining was that in the file config.log it will contain
> more details about why vidstab was not found, not just that it was not
> found.
>
> The way configure works is that it will try to compile lots of small
> programs to see if the expected API is there, and to work out what
> libraries it needs to link to. If a library changes its API, the small
> program will not compile, which is the same result as if the library
> was not found. The output of trying to compile the small program is
> stored in config.log, and seeing the output helps determine why the
> library was not found.
>
> Cheers
>
>
Thanks for trying to resolve a potential misunderstanding but I know what
config.log is for and I do check it every time configure fails and the
config.log contained the same text as was output by configure, i.e. no
additional information regarding why it failed for that library in that
particular case. That's what I was trying to say.

Cheers,

Robert