[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Modify the ff* tools -version output

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:42:48PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
[...]
> > [...]
> > > Index: cmdutils.c
> > > ===================================================================
> > > --- cmdutils.c	(revision 14695)
> > > +++ cmdutils.c	(working copy)
> > > @@ -201,13 +201,6 @@
> > >      fprintf(stderr, "%s version " FFMPEG_VERSION ", Copyright (c) %d-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.\n",
> > >              program_name, program_birth_year);
> > >      fprintf(stderr, "  configuration: " FFMPEG_CONFIGURATION "\n");
> > > -    fprintf(stderr, "  libavutil version: " AV_STRINGIFY(LIBAVUTIL_VERSION) "\n");
> > > -    fprintf(stderr, "  libavcodec version: " AV_STRINGIFY(LIBAVCODEC_VERSION) "\n");
> > > -    fprintf(stderr, "  libavformat version: " AV_STRINGIFY(LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION) "\n");
> > > -    fprintf(stderr, "  libavdevice version: " AV_STRINGIFY(LIBAVDEVICE_VERSION) "\n");
> > > -#if ENABLE_AVFILTER
> > > -    fprintf(stderr, "  libavfilter version: " AV_STRINGIFY(LIBAVFILTER_VERSION) "\n");
> > > -#endif
> > >      fprintf(stderr, "  built on " __DATE__ " " __TIME__);
> > >  #ifdef __GNUC__
> > >      fprintf(stderr, ", gcc: " __VERSION__ "\n");
> > > @@ -216,14 +209,22 @@
> > >  #endif
> > >  }
> > 
> > rejected, we need to have the version in the output in bugreports
> 
> See that, but just to make my point: that information may be deduced
> by the SVN revision number, so it's redundant and leads to code
> duplication.

with which version of libavcodec.so has a user if SVN r14710 linked
his ffmpeg?

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