[Ffmpeg-devel] Recent change in configure causes error message in MSys/MinGW

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:09:03PM -0400, Jonathon Elwood wrote:
> There was a recent change to 'configure' that is now causing a Windows box
> to appear in MSys/MinGW.  The box says "ffmpeg-conf-17246-3728-29106.exe has
> encountered a problem and needs to close".  I know this is a question
> specific to MSys/MinGW and this may not be the appropriate place to post
> this problem.  If there is another list that would be more appropriate
> please let me know.
> 
> There is a note here stating that this was done intentionally.  I don't know
> what this script is doing, so I'm not sure how important it is.  Is this the
> way it should work with MSys/MinGW now or is there a library I'm missing
> that will stop this error from occurring?  Also, the note says to click
> "Don't send" and ignore it.  Does that mean that if I ignore this error
> ./configure will still work fine?

Is there a way we can make this note more explicit so that people
understand it?

Diego