[MPlayer-users] building mplayer using non-standard ffmpeg libs

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:19:48PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> >(If I'm wrong, and what you're asking for is the ability to compile
> >against libav* source directories which are located somewhere other than
> >in the MPlayer source tree: sorry, that isn't possible, and I don't
> >think it can reasonably be made possible because of the design of the
> >build system.)
>
> cd main
> ln -s /non/standard/ffmpeg/libav* .

Does that work nowadays? I think in the past using symbolic link had
some rather weird effects...
I think it will use the ffmpeg config.h and config.mak (which might be
desired, but not necessarily, and can break things completely).

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger