[Ffmpeg-devel] ffplay not compiled anymore

[François Revol]

> "Fran?ois Revol" <revol at free.fr> writes:
> 
> >> "Fran?ois Revol" <revol at free.fr> writes:
> >> 
> >> >> Luca Barbato said:
> >> >> > Luca Abeni wrote:
> >> >> >> Hi all,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I just discovered that after an update from subversion the
> >> >> >> configure script refuses to compile ffplay because SDL is 
> > > > > > > too
> >> >> >> old. This is happening on a debian stable machine...  I 
> > > > > > > think
> >> >> >> that debian stable (3.1) should be supported, no?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Was discussed with a window of about a week... I won't revert 
> > > > > > it
> >> >> > since it breaks other distros.
> >> >> IMHO, requiring the latest released version of libs is 
> > > > > reasonable.
> >> >> Supporting Debian stable is just not feasible.
> >> >
> >> > It is not only about Debian, but also all other OSes which don't
> >> > necessarily have the latest-whizzbang-version-of-everything.
> >> > Requiring everyone to update their port of SDL just for 2 lines 
> > > > of
> >> > code that aren't necessary is not really any more reasonable 
> > > > IMO.
> >> 
> >> Alright, take it easy.  I'll fix it.  I just can't help wondering 
> > > why
> >> I heard not even a whisper of a complaint from you lot when I
> >> repeatedly asked for opinions on this change.
> >> 
> >
> > Cause I probably left the mail waiting for an answer and then 
> > forgot it 
> > when a pile of spams and trolls went through :P
> > It just happened as I svn uped and rebuilt to test the rtsp fix in 
> > a 
> > hurry.
> 
> Those things happen.  I've checked in something that should fix it.
> 
> > Oh btw, anyone knows a normalized (posix ?) way to know the 
> > available 
> > RAM ?
> > I'd get configure to disable -O3 -g when it's less than 1GB since 
> > it 
> > fails anyway (yes, not only in BeOS with antiquated gcc) because 
> > some 
> > files are way too big anyway (namely mpegvideo.c, snow.c ...). I 
> > always 
> > keep it but have to manually build those... better would be to make 
> > them of a reasonable size. :D
> 
> It builds just fine on my laptop with total 512MB RAM.  Are you sure
> your setup isn't broken?
> 

Well I said 1G as I have a (noisy) box with that, but well...
I don't consider my K6-2 350 with 128M (192 but mem=128M cause bad 
dimm)
running deb stable as broken.

It's well, not up to today's specs, that's it. (and I though 640K ought 
to be enough for everyone anyway...)

Fran?ois.