[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] build: fix make checkheaders in out-of-tree builds

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

On 24.01.2016 21:40, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 1/24/16, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It is absolutely unacceptable to say "do something else" as a "workaround"
>> to a breakage introduced by a new feature.
>>
>> Unless you can fix this for every usecase that was working before this
>> in the very short term, as several people told you already these patches
>> *must* be reverted until a proper fix is found.

That's not very reasonable.
Other changes also broke things that worked before.
For example before commit 94c20de one could build ffmpeg with x265 version
X265_BUILD 17, and afterwards it requires at least X265_BUILD 57.

That's also a regression, but the workaround is to use a newer x265 version.

> Yes, it *must* be reverted, FATE shouldn't be red.

The patch to use relative for DST_PATH should make FATE green again, as
no MSVC FATE client I saw builds across drives.

If it's really necessary to continue supporting this fringe use case, one
could make configure create a link to the destination folder.
Unless links also don't work across drives.

Best regards,
Andreas