[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main configure, 1.1044, 1.1045 Makefile, 1.329, 1.330

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 12:06:17PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:11:33AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:24:33PM +0200, Richard Felker CVS wrote:
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > > 	configure Makefile 
> > > Log Message:
> > > remove broken shared libpostproc stuff
> > 
> > Can you explain why this is broken and how removing it has helped the
> > situation?
> 
> There is no sense in having static libavcodec but shared libpostproc
> (which is part of libavcodec since ages ago). If you want to use
> shared libs, precompile libavcodec and libpostproc from ffmpeg
> sources, then install them and have mplayer use the external lavc. If
> you're compiling libavcodec as part of the mplayer source tree, it's
> always compiled static, and libpostproc should be compiled static too.
> 
> As for what's broken, the linker flags for setting soname, etc. don't
> seem to work on some systems when compiling libpostproc as shared, and
> produce random nonsensical error messages. Then idiots insist on using
> --enable-shared-postproc and report bugs about it... So after talking
> to a couple people on #mplayerdev we quickly concluded that the best
> thing was to just remove this crap.

OK, I'm happy with that explanation, thanks.

BTW, can we all try to keep cvs log messages a bit more descriptive?
Things like 10l may be fun and quick to type and the problem may even be
obvious to those in the know, but don't forget that many people are
around to learn and explanations help them.

Diego