[MPlayer-dev-eng] Rework of vidix: now a static lib.

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Sat Mar 31 04:19:23 CEST 2007


On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:05:46PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Anyway I still consider nonsense having all drivers compiled 
> statically because I'll NEVER need any of them except one
> (what do you do when you compile your kernel: enable
> all available drivers statically? or do you compile all possible
> ao and vo in mplayer? I doubt it) so I'm for either:
> - giving the user the possibility to compile them dynamically like now

The way it was already, they were all compiled and installed. Whether
they're static linked into the mplayer binary or stored in other .so
files makes no difference to disk space usage or memory usage.

> - or giving the user the possibility to disable all drivers but X

Yes, this is what should be done. It's the best of all worlds. :)

Rich



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