[MPlayer-dev-eng] linking external ffmpeg libs

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 08:52:47AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 07:59:40 (EDT), Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:34:39PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote:
> >> 
> >> From a packager POV, linking mplayer to an existing ffmpeg package's
> >> libav* is an attractive option. Is there an easy way to not build
> >> mplayers internal libav*, but to use one in ffmpeg's shared objects?
> >> 
> >> If not, could I encourage an option in the build system?
> >
> > ./configure --help
> 
> I reckon he is asking for something like
> 
> $ ./configure --with-system-ffmpeg
> 
> as shortcut for the various --disable_libavfoo_a options. Diego, at
> FOSDEM, you've indicated sympathy with such a switch, has your opinion
> changed since then? If not, I'll try to come up with a patch for that
> next week when I'm back home.

Go right ahead.

Diego