[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg include file policy

[Janne Grunau]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 09:20:42PM +0100, usleepless at gmail.com wrote:
> so not system library or external library #includes ). Example:
> 
> libavformat/flvdec.c:
> 
>  * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
>  * License along with FFmpeg; if not, write to the Free Software
>  * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301
> USA
>  */
> 
> #include "libavcodec/mpeg4audio.h"
> #include "avformat.h"
> #include "flv.h"
> 
> So because MythTV uses qmake, which tosses /usr/local/include into the
> include-dirs, mpeg4audio.h will be fetched from /usr/local/include. It will
> be found there because if have ffmpeg also installed from ports.

That shouldn't be the case since -I../ should occur first and the
correct file from source tree should be included.

Please continue discussing this on mythtv-dev, it's offtopic here.

Janne