[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg > 5.0 refuses to build with x264-static

[Ferdi Scholten]

unchanged nonsense with 6.0.0
>>
>> [builduser at testserver:/rpmbuild/SPECS]$ ls 
>> /rpmbuild/BUILD/ffmpeg-20230301/x264-static/
>> total 2.6M
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 builduser builduser   60 2023-03-01 15:44 pkgconfig
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 builduser builduser 2.6M 2023-03-01 15:44 libx264.a
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 builduser builduser  48K 2023-03-01 15:44 x264.h
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 builduser builduser  172 2023-03-01 15:44 x264_config.h
>>
>> + ../configure --prefix=/usr/local --bindir=/usr/local/bin 
>> --mandir=/usr/local/man 
>> '--extra-cflags=-I/rpmbuild/BUILD/ffmpeg-20230301/x264-static -m64 
>> -O2 -g0 -march=skylake -mtune=skylake -mno-avx512f -mfpmath=sse 
>> -msse2avx -ftree-slp-vectorize -fopenmp -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing 
>> -fomit-frame-pointer -fexceptions -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables 
>> -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=6 
>> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -w -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -O3 
>> -mno-avx512f -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-tree-vectorize 
>> -ftree-slp-vectorize -fno-gcse-after-reload -fno-inline-functions 
>> -fno-ipa-cp -fno-ipa-cp-clone -fno-peel-loops 
>> -fno-predictive-commoning -fno-tree-loop-distribute-patterns 
>> -fno-unswitch-loops -flto=6 -fwhole-program -w' 
>> '--extra-ldflags=-I/rpmbuild/BUILD/ffmpeg-20230301/x264-static 
>> -L/rpmbuild/BUILD/ffmpeg-20230301/x264-static -ldl -Wl,--as-needed 
>> -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,relro -m64 -O2 -g0 -march=skylake -mtune=skylake 
>> -mno-avx512f -mfpmath=sse -msse2avx -ftree-slp-vectorize -fopenmp 
>> -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -fexceptions 
>> -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-protector-strong 
>> --param=ssp-buffer-size=6 -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -w -Wformat 
>> -Werror=format-security -fPIC -O3 -mno-avx512f -fno-strict-aliasing 
>> -fno-tree-vectorize -ftree-slp-vectorize -fno-gcse-after-reload 
>> -fno-inline-functions -fno-ipa-cp -fno-ipa-cp-clone -fno-peel-loops 
>> -fno-predictive-commoning -fno-tree-loop-distribute-patterns 
>> -fno-unswitch-loops -flto=6 -fwhole-program -pie -fPIE -w' 
>> --ar=gcc-ar --ranlib=true --enable-lto --enable-gpl 
>> --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvpx 
>> --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-nonfree --enable-openssl 
>> --enable-pic --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-static 
>> --enable-version3 --disable-amf --disable-appkit --disable-autodetect 
>> --disable-avdevice --disable-avfoundation --disable-coreimage 
>> --disable-debug --disable-devices --disable-ffplay --disable-ffprobe 
>> --disable-htmlpages --disable-hwaccels --disable-iconv 
>> --disable-libdc1394 --disable-libfreetype --disable-libgsm 
>> --disable-libopencore-amrnb --disable-libopencore-amrwb 
>> --disable-libopencv --disable-libopenjpeg --disable-libopus 
>> --disable-librtmp --disable-libspeex --disable-libvorbis 
>> --disable-libxcb --disable-libxcb-shape --disable-libxcb-shm 
>> --disable-libxcb-xfixes --disable-libxvid --disable-podpages 
>> --disable-postproc --disable-protocol=gopher --disable-shared 
>> --disable-txtpages --disable-xlib
>> ERROR: x264 not found using pkg-config
>
> So, what are the contents of x264.pc
> and, what is the result of pkg-config --debug x264
>
> pkg-config is telling the linker how to link the library, If it is not 
> found or incorrect you will get the not found message from configure
On closer inspection, you might try adding

--pkg-config-flags="--static" to your ./configure commandline to inform pkg-config that 
you are using statically linked libraries otherwise it assumes 
dynamically linked libraries