[MPlayer-dev-eng] mencoder and freetype

[Chris Roccati]

On 1 Jul 2006, at 16:13 , Ivan Kalvachev wrote:

> 2006/7/1, Chris Roccati <roccati at pobox.com>:
>> Hello,
>> some recent change in the SVN has imposed to mcoder a dependence on
>> freetype: instead of using libvo/libvo.a, mencoder directly depends
>> on libvo/font_load_ft.c (etc) causing the build to fail if freetype
>> is disabled or not available. Is this an accident or a design choice?

> Many people use mencoder to embed subtitles.

Many people do not. Making mencoder unbuildable without FreeType on  
this basis does not sound a wise choice.

> It is done by "export" filter.
> Rejected.

As the subject didn't say [PATCH] this wasn't a patch proposal: Given  
the fact that just a few revisions ago this didn't happen it looked  
like it was some kind of mistake.