[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Compute absolute paths in configure

[Måns Rullgård]

Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> if you set for example a prefix like this:
> configure --prefix=../..

Then you either have a good reason to do so, or you can blame yourself.

> then you'll find the relative path for example in the pkg-config
> files, which doesn't work properly.
>
> This patch make configure compute the absolute path of every path set
> by configure (yes maybe it needs to be splitted also for what regards
> the PATHS_LIST part).

Are yo sure about that?  Why are you messing with cross_prefix?

> I'm not sure if this is correct though, maybe there are cases where
> there is the need to keep relative paths (but this doesn't work for
> sure with pkg-config paths, which need to be absolute), in those cases
> the user is forced to specify absolute paths.

We should use whatever the user specifies.  There is nothing more
annoying than tools trying to be too clever.

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