[MPlayer-users] Configure & ffmpeg git: automatic and not if --help

[sean darcy]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Reimar Döffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:32:59PM -0400, sean darcy wrote:
>> In todays' svn when configure runs, it just waits at the enter of ^c
>> message for ffmpeg git. Last week configure did a git clone if
>> nothing happened for 10 or so seconds.
>
> No, it never did so. Downloading without user confirmation is unacceptable.
>
>> I build mplayer using a spec file. The old behavior worked a lot
>> better for me. Could we at least have a configure parameter that
>> caused the git clone without user intervention?
>
> Get an ffmpeg git checkout there via whichever method is most convenient,
> there is no need to have configure do it.
> Its purpose is to avoid making the process any more difficult than previously
> to new to MPlayer SVN or otherwise less advanced users, if you know how
> to build a spec file I'd expect that you can think of a better way of
> getting FFmpeg in ffmpeg/ that having configure do it.
>
>> Also, configure --help now requires an ffmpeg git clone. Does it need to?
>
> No, changed.
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Thanks.

sean