[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFmpeg, svn:externals and where to go from here

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:56:12AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 07:17:31PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 07:33:59AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 22:32:29 (CET), Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > >> This looks no harder than compiling both MPlayer and FFmpeg to me.
> > > >
> > > > Which is double the effort of just compiling MPlayer.
> > > > However that is not counting the worst: either installing FFmpeg
> > > > or beating it to be useable without installing.
> > > 
> > > What's the problem with installing FFmpeg on Windows? Seriously,
> > > is there something that can done to make this step easier?
> > 
> > Not Windows-specific really, except that there's not even the
> > option of using a system one.
> > The issues are
> > - additional steps (yet another configure to run, with different
> >   options which is particularly annoying for cross-compiling)
> 
> I see nothing that could not be solved by a simple shell script...

Well, we already have one that is well tested, it's named configure.

> > - no reliable make uninstall
> 
> If you report bugs I will fix them.

No really ancient headers/no longer installed headers are removed
(e.g. in the split subdirs), binaries from a crosscompile
are not removed (i.e. only one of .so .dll .dynlib or .exe vs no .exe)
library links generated by ldconfig are not removed (I have some
doubts this is fixable in a sane way, and does not apply to
Windows anyway I admit).