[MPlayer-users] SVN won't build

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Andrew Savchenko <Bircoph at list.ru> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thursday 16 October 2008 22:31, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Keith Lawson
> <lawsonk at lawson-tech.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I downloaded the SVN copy last night and it wouldn't build due
>> > to a small typo in libavcodec/libx264.c. The Gentoo guys have
>> > already supplied a patch here:
>> >
>> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=167513&action=edit
>>
>> Perhaps the Gentoo guys should actually pay a few seconds of
>> attention to development so that they know why the error occurs,
>> rather than immediately declaring it a "typo" and trying to
>> patch it downstream without telling anyone?  Oh, wait, then they
>> wouldn't be Gentoo.
>
> Yet again, this patch is silly. Just look for the x264 code: they
> changed the api again, so mplayer/ffmpeg svn head is in sync with
> x264's one.

I'm the last one you should be telling that to; I'm both an x264
maintainer and the maintainer of the aforementioned libx264.c ;)

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