[FFmpeg-user] [Fedora] Installing from source

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

matt clark <liquefry <at> gmail.com> writes:

>     yum install bzip2-devel
> 
> I installed this package based on the following 
> error in config.log after trying to configure 
> the source:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbz2

How can I reproduce this?
I mean: It is recommended to install bz2(-devel) 
when compiling FFmpeg (you get more mkv support) 
but it should work fine without (as long as you 
don't want to demux a bz2 compressed mkv file) 
so I wonder how you get above error.

Carl Eugen