[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Allow selection of output directory in configure

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? <flameeyes at gentoo.org> writes:

> Not sure if this will be considered good or what, but while working on 
> integrating FFmpeg's build system in xine-lib's, to avoid patching it at all 
> to get it to work, I've found myself missing an option to change the build 
> directory as it's possible to change the source directory.
>
> The attached patch adds the parameter so that you can create the
> makefiles in a different directory.
>
> As I said, I'm not sure if it's considered good or bad, but if it's
> suitable, will make my life quite easier.

Why not just cd to that directory before running configure?

(cd $builddir; $srcdir/configure)

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