[MPlayer-users] ./configure - little inconvenience

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 08:38:28AM +0200, Oliver Seitz wrote:
> I think it is good that ./configure automatically updates ffmpeg.
> But I think this update could be skipped if ./configure is called
> with "--help" parameter.

The problem is that configure currently needs to evaluate
libavcodec/allcodecs.c before it evaluates the command-line
arguments, so it's not (easily) possible right now, sorry.
Patches welcome though.