[FFmpeg-user] Unknown option "--disable-ffserver"

[Paul B Mahol]

On 4/22/18, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>
>
> Am 22.04.2018 um 07:57 schrieb Carl Zwanzig:
>> On 4/21/2018 5:46 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>> PEBKAC
>>
>> That is probably the most unhelpful answer on this list in a long time.
>> Instead of wasting time sending it, you could have actually explained
>> _why_ you think there's a user error.
>>
>> Reindl- how about the git logs/diffs showing the add/remove cycle? That
>> should put to rest the question of how often it changed
> do you pay me for that? i know i had to change it more than one time -
> yeah maybe because try if a current snaphsot is fixing a problem as it
> is always suggested here and ater switch back the spec file - well,
> yeah, thank you for stupid changes nobody on this planet needs
>
> having --disable-ffserver as a *hard* error at ./configure is *bullshit*
> anyways - what is the next? throw a hard error because of every unknown
> configure option? "--disable-dependency-tracking" is a warning at start
> of many builds as example but nobody is so crazy and throws a hard error
> and if he dos downstream just writes patches
>
> %configure \
>   CFLAGS="${CFLAGS:-%optflags}"; export CFLAGS; \
>   CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS:-%optflags}"; export CXXFLAGS; \
>   CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS:-%optflags}"; export CPPFLAGS; \
>   FFLAGS="${FFLAGS:-%optflags -I%_fmoddir}"; export FFLAGS; \
>   FCFLAGS="${FCFLAGS:-%optflags -I%_fmoddir}"; export FCFLAGS; \
>   LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS:-%__global_ldflags}"; export LDFLAGS; \
>   ./configure \\\
>    --host=x86_64-redhat-linux \\\
>    --build=x86_64-redhat-linux \\\
>    --target=x86_64-redhat-linux \\\
>    --program-prefix=%{?_program_prefix} \\\
>    --disable-dependency-tracking \\\
>    --prefix=%{_prefix} \\\
>    --exec-prefix=%{_exec_prefix} \\\
>    --bindir=%{_bindir} \\\
>    --sbindir=%{_sbindir} \\\
>    --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} \\\
>    --datadir=%{_datadir} \\\
>    --includedir=%{_includedir} \\\
>    --libdir=%{_libdir} \\\
>    --libexecdir=%{_libexecdir} \\\
>    --localstatedir=%{_localstatedir} \\\
>    --sharedstatedir=%{_sharedstatedir} \\\
>    --mandir=%{_mandir} \\\
>    --infodir=%{_infodir}
>
> it's only the ignorance of the developers which think the whole world
> turns around "don't use any script but only ./configure" and "don't use
> any script but only ffmpeg directly"
>
> fuck it no!
>
> it's even legit use the same script for versions of the last decades and
> just change the variable pointing to the tarball - have fun with such
> useless changes

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