[FFmpeg-devel] x11 output device for libavdevice

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Sunday 2013-05-26 13:18:57 +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos encoded:
> Stefano Sabatini <stefasab <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > > > Because right now the build system is schizofrenic, 
> > > > and it is not clear when autodetection logic should 
> > > > be used or not.
> > > 
> > > (Imo, it is crystal-clear, but that is not the quesion.)
> > 
> > It is not clear at all to me. What is the principle?
> 
> "System libraries" are auto-detected.
> (vda is currently wrong, I forgot to 
> work on this in the last days...)
> 
>
> Obviously you can discuss what is a system library 
> and what is not a system library, we so far argued 
> that not only libz and libbz2 (and libva) but alsa 
> and sdl are also system libs.
>
> I find this argumentation not unreasonable and I 
> do not remember a user or a packager complaining.
> (But when we broke libva, complaints were made 
> immediately.)
> 
> (Please understand that this is *our* definition 
> of "system library", it may of course diverge - 
> significantly - from other people's definition.)

Now I have no idea what a "system library" is, and why for example
libz or libsdl are considered "system libraries", and libx264 is not.
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