[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Fix compilation on OpenBSD

Andrew Savchenko bircoph
Fri Nov 21 09:24:22 CET 2008


Hi,

On Thursday 20 November 2008 01:35, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
[...]
> There are 3 options
> 1. Fix all C programs
> 2. Fix all openbsd systems
> 3. Convince the respective openbsd maintainers to add 1 line to
> the correct header to be a step closer to ISO C99 conformance.
>
> Its clear which of the 3 if successfull is least work overall.
>
> Besides this, i out of principle am against workarounds before
> the respective maintainers of the "buggy" code have been
> contacted.
>
> Bugs should be fixed where they are, not worked around in every
> piece of code touching it.

As it occurs for now, the bug is already fixed in the latest 
release, the problem is in our older setup, it can't be updated 
right now, but it will be in some foreseeable albeit not nearest 
time.

It's up to you to decide if this problem should be fixed for older 
setups, but as far as I understand your bugfix policy the result 
will be negative.

-- 
Best regards,
Andrew
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