[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] don't link mplayer with encoding libsand allow disabling some encoders in lavc

[Nico Sabbi]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:

>Hello,
>On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:57:46AM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
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>>All this mess wouldn't be necessary if we used only pkg-config (as for 
>>lav[cf] external),
>>and configure would be much much cleaner.
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>This assumes pkg-config works. Which on Linux systems is mostly but not
>always true, and on Solaris, Windows and FreeBSD usually is not at all
>the case.
>And a broken pkg-config leads to even more complicated problems because
>it is much harder to find out what is going on without direct access to
>the problematic PC.
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in this case a brand new ffmpeg-config seems to be the only viable
and cross-platform option, do you agree?