[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] shared libavutil support

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:21:34AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Thursday, 04 January 2007 at 19:46, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 05:32:50PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> > > 2006/12/28, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org>:
> > > >On Thursday, 28 December 2006 at 01:53, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> > > >> On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:08:50 +0100
> > > >> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > Fixes build with shared libavutil.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I'll apply this tomorrow evening if there are no objections.
> > > >>
> > > >> I havn't really looked at it, but seeing the patch, I would guess
> > > >> that the problem is in fact in configure. Maybe it should find
> > > >> the path of installed ffmpeg header and add something like
> > > >> -I/usr/include/ffmpeg.
> > > >> Well, that's only wild guessing and rough idea. Don't trust it
> > > >> too much.
> > > >
> > > >The same is already done for shared libavcodec.
> > > 
> > > I donno why, but I have the feeling that libavutil is not meant  to be
> > > used as shared by MPlayer.
> > 
> > It is not, since MPlayer needs some headers that are not installed for
> > the shared version. It can only compile by combining code from shared
> > libavutil and the code in the libavutil/ subdir, which is at least
> > risky...
> 
> Why is there --disable-libavutil then?

Consistency.  Also, it was added back when the dependency on libavutil
was not that big.

Diego