[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/3] build: rely on pkg-config for libx264 probing

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On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:59:23 +0000 (UTC)
Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> Clément Bœsch <u <at> pkh.me> writes:

> > > I meant I hate to install a custom x264 build.
> 
> Let me try again since this is apparently unclear:
> If I need FFmpeg with a particular x264 build, I 
> compile x264 and prefer not to run "make install". 
> This would be broken by your patch.
> 
> If your patch is really what everybody wants, please 
> add a fallback that allows to try the current 
> way of building if pkg-config returns that the 
> library is missing.

You could say that about every single dependency already handled with
pkg-config?