[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC/PATCH]Allow to use ancient bash to make version.h

Carl Eugen Hoyos cehoyos at ag.or.at
Sat Jun 21 22:16:20 CEST 2014


Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On 6/21/2014 8:26 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Should we add a paragraph to the documentation that 
> > we don't support some Solaris versions?
> > 
> > Or does the patch break some sane environments?
> 
> I think it is not unreasonable to require a 
> POSIX-compliant shell.

For a script that has <30 lines?

> I think we say this in our documents, but I am unsure. I thought
> we had documented that you cant use the non-GNU Solaris stuff?

https://ffmpeg.org/platform.html#g_t_0028Open_0029Solaris
I only see a request to use "bash configure", not that 
you have to create version.h manually to allow compilation 
if you used "bash configure" because your shell isn't bash.

Carl Eugen



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