[Ffmpeg-devel] Broken compilation for shared libraries - r6545

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 04:53:10PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> 
> Diego Biurrun said:
> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 06:13:36PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >>
> >> Diego Biurrun said:
> >> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 03:58:04PM -0300, Ramiro Polla wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Revision 6545, by Diego, on Oct 3rd, moved EXTRALIBS's use of libavutil
> >> >> to common.mak. That way, building libavutil depends on there being
> >> >> libavutil on the system. Shared libavutil would have to not use
> >> >> common.mak's EXTRALIBS. Maybe just revert the change?
> >> >
> >> > Change reverted.  It's a pity, it did simplify things a bit ..
> >>
> >> Why does it break?
> >
> > "Cannot find -lavutil"
> 
> And why is that?  From what I could tell, the change wouldn't alter the value
> of EXTRALIBS in any way.

Yes, it would.  Since libavutil/Makefile includes common.mak the
EXTRALIBS lines in common.mak are used for libavutil linking..

> Does this happen under mingw only, or cygwin also affected?

The report was for MinGW, dunno about Cygwin.

Diego