[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]Do not require pkg-config for libx265

[Clément Bœsch]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 02:38:27PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:46:58PM +0200, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > On Monday 26 May 2014 12:22:03 pm Clément Bœsch wrote:
> > > So well, it's all about:
> > 
> > Yes;-)
> > 
> > >   PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --enable-foobar
> > >
> > > vs:
> > >
> > >   ./configure --extra-cflags='-I/usr/local/include'
> > > --extra-ldflags='-L/usr/local/lib' --enable-foobar
> > >
> > > I'm not sure how "more difficult" the first one is over the second one.
> 
> maybe its just me but
> on an average user system i would expect
> ./configure --enable-foobar
> to work
> /usr/local is not a "non standard" place to put stuff
> 

  pkg-config  retrieves  information about packages from special metadata
  files. These files are named after the package, and has  a  .pc  exten‐
  sion.    On  most  systems,  pkg-config  looks  in  /usr/lib/pkgconfig,
  /usr/share/pkgconfig,           /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig            and
  /usr/local/share/pkgconfig  for these files.  It will additionally look
  in the colon-separated (on Windows, semicolon-separated) list of direc‐
  tories specified by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.

So if the lib is installed in /usr/local the PKG_CONFIG_PATH configuration will
not be necessary unless you want to prioritize one in /usr/local over one on
/usr (for example) .

...and thus it will add the cflags/ldflags necessary.

-- 
Clément B.
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