[Ffmpeg-devel] Bug in libavutil Makefile (or maybe just mystupidity? Be gentle...)

[Michel Bardiaux]

Alexander Strasser wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:53:12PM +0100, Alexander Strasser wrote:
>>
>>>Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>>>
>>>>Test 2, static libs.
>>>>
>>>>make distclean
>>>>./configure  --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-strip 
>>>>--enable-memalign-hac
>>>>make
>>>>make install
>>>>
>>>>Compiles OK, but installs only ffmpeg.exe (not the libs, not the 
>>>>headers) and same problem running the ffmpeg.exe.
>>>
>>>  That is normal behaviour iirc, static libs are not installed
>>>by default. You should be able to install them with the installib
>>>target as the Wanderer pointed out already.
>>
>>OK, but what about the headers?  Should the headers be installed for the
>>static lib version or not?
> 
> 
>   IMHO the headers should be installed, else it would have little use.
> This is also the current situation.
>   The other problem is what make install should do, current situation
> is as follows:
> 
>   static libs only build
>     -> install only the statically linked ff* binaries
>        without libs and headers
>     
>   shared libs only build
>     -> install the dynamically linked ff* binaries
>        and of course the shared libs
>        but also install the headers
> 
>   static and shared libs build
>     -> install ff* binaries (if they are statically linked or
>        dynamically is dependent on the linkers decision)
>        and the headers and shared libs

This is not allowed anymore.

> 
> 
>   So the current situation does, more or less works for what most users
> somehow have in mind when building the static or shared versions of libav
> and ffmpeg binaries. Also it is not really logical and maybe also not
> really documented(i didn't check).
> 
>   I vote for postponing changes if needed to after the planned release.

Sorry to come back again with my pet peeve, but you know that a major 
behavior change after the release is going to be a nightmare; unless of 
course we stick to the 'get cvs' olicy, and then why bother with a release?

> 
>   Alex (beastd)
> 
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