[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] require static libswscale for mga

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 10:48:42AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:18:24 +0200
> Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Since I don't expect anyone to actually fix the mgadrivers to actually
> > avoid swscale internals and stick to the public API, this patch makes
> > configure require a static libswscale for the mga drivers. It is
> > inspired a bit by uotis mplayer-git branch, but doesn't introduce his
> > LIBSWSCALE_INTERNALS variable. Instead, this check just checks the
> > variable $_libswscale_a.
> 
> If Diego is ok with the changes to configure, then i'd say
> it's the best solution.
>  
> > Another option would be to just remove the mga drivers, but there still
> > seem to be users around that actually use this.
> 
> Yes. There are a few. But i guess, that when the last mainboards
> with PCI interfaces disapear, that the last users of mga_vid will
> go with them.

There are PCIe G550s around.

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