[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Remove special install path for MinGW.

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:21:35AM -0200, ramiro at lisha.ufsc.br wrote:
> 
> I haven't seen any other library that does this install path
> special-casing for Windows, and FFmpeg seems like it should be the last
> program to support such a thing.

This is due to the way MinGW cross-compilation is handled in configure.
I've always been tempted to remove it.  In any case your patch is
incorrect as --prefix will no longer work correctly.  Also, if you
remove the only place where a variable is used, you should also remove
the declaration.

> Also, I haven't seen any FFmpeg installer that uses the ffinstall.nsi
> script (provided with FFmpeg) around in the Internet.
> 
> Both these things look like they should be done by whoever packages
> FFmpeg, and not the official program.

I don't have much of an opinion about this.  Are there any users of this
script?

Diego