[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFmpeg build system integration

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2006/2/14, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> 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...

There is yet another problem with the new build system.
It seems that FFmpeg Makefiles use $(SRC_PATH) that is of course not
set by MPlayer configure.
The problem is that libpostprocess cannot find the common.mak even if
it is in mplayer main/

Anyway, DonDiego, you are honored by 10l cola per day for deliberately
breaking MPlayer CVS.