[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] DOCS: Windows compilation

[Måns Rullgård]

Alex Beregszaszi said:
> Hi,
>
> While working on MinGW I faced a problem with the latest SVN.
>
> The configure script takes enormous time and memory to finish. 300m
> memory and 120 minutes. I was using bash 2.05b.

I admire your patience.

> With bash 3.1.0(3)-release it works nicely, with similar speed to Linux.
>
> So we can state it fails with 2.05b.
>
> Attached is a patch for the docs part.

I'm glad you found a solution.  Patch is fine with me.

Perhaps we should check for this bash version in configure, and print a
warning if it is detected.

BTW, I've noticed that ksh is almost twice as fast as bash running the
configure script in Linux.

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