[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFmpeg build system integration

[Jindrich Makovicka]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 12:45:01AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> * Just use the static/dynamic libs.

This is also a pain for CVS. It's much more convenient to build
everything at once, and there is a problem when you already have ffmpeg
installed as a package (which is outdated so MPlayer doesn't build with it).

-- 
Jindrich Makovicka