[FFmpeg-devel] r19654 - trunk/configure

Måns Rullgård mans
Sun Aug 16 11:41:07 CEST 2009


Michael Kostylev <michael.kostylev at gmail.com> writes:

> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>
>>>> Log:
>>>> Use pkg-config to generate the linker flags for libdirac.
>>>> We do the same for libschroedinger and already use pkg-config to generate
>>>> the CFLAGS for libdirac anyway, so there is no new dependency.
>>>> Thanks to Kovensky for reporting breakage on IRC.
>>> Why the sudden change of heart? When I brought this up almost a year
>>> ago, it was denied after a fair bit of discussion.
>> There has been no change of heard, I was simply not paying attention.
>> That said, I guess this might be one of those cases that cannot easily
>> be solved properly due to the bad design practices of the libdirac
>> developers.  pkg-config is hell when cross-compiling, but I'd be
>> surprised if libdirac can be cross-compiled at all, let alone run on
>> anything non-x86, so this isolated instance probably doesn't make
>> things any worse than libdirac already is.
>
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/i386-pc-msdosdjgpp/lib/pkgconfig \
> ../source/configure --cross-prefix=i386-pc-msdosdjgpp- ... \
> --enable-libdirac --enable-libschroedinger
>
> works as it should. 

That often prints things like -L/usr/lib, causing the linker to go
looking in the build system's /usr/lib, not the target root.  I've had
to work around that more times than I care to remember.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
mans at mansr.com



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