[Ffmpeg-devel] Build fails if all riff muxers are disabled

[Måns Rullgård]

Ramiro Polla <angustia at arrozcru.no-ip.org> writes:

> Martin Storsj? wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If all riff based muxers and demuxers are disabled (e.g. by
>> --disable-muxers --disable-demuxers and then --enable-muxer for the
>> ones needed), the build of libavformat fails with an undefined
>> reference to av_codec_get_tag in libavformat/utils.c.
>
> This scares me...
> That has been there since rev 7600 (over a month), and the exact
> moment I'm about to press "Send" on an e-mail for the same issue, your
> message appears...
>
> While trying to make a totally patent-free ffmpeg

ROTFLMAO

> (--disable-muxers
> --disable-demuxers --disable-parsers --disable-encoders
> --disable-decoders), I got that error. I don't know I sometimes test
> this. Maybe just to make sure it will still compile.
>
> Attached patch adds riff.o to OBJS, since utils.o is there, and it
> needs riff.o. Then removes all other riff.o from the Makefile.

I'd rather find out why there is such a dependency there.  To me, it
smells like something that shouldn't be there in the first place.

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