[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFmpeg build system integration

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:24:39AM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 2006/2/14, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> > As you may have noticed the MPlayer build is currently broken due to the
> > latest changes to the build system in FFmpeg.  Mans came up with the
> > simple but clever idea of putting all the common stuff from the
> > different libav* Makefiles into a file in the root of the src tree:
> > common.mak.
> >
> > While this shaves more than 150 lines from the FFmpeg Makefiles, it's a
> > problem for us since we need to integrate this file now in one form or
> > the other.  We have several options:
> >
> > * Copy common.mak to our source tree similar to the libav* dirs.
> > * cvs add common.mak to our source tree.
> > * Put all of ffmpeg in our source tree instead of just a few dirs.
> 
> How about moving common.mak to libavutil ?

That would IMO be a hack in FFmpeg to accomodate MPlayer.  We would have
to make changes to FFmpeg as well then.  In FFmpeg the root directory is
the most natural place for common.mak...

Diego