[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] build: fix make checkheaders in out-of-tree builds

Henrik Gramner henrik at gramner.com
Sun Jan 24 17:14:30 CET 2016


On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Windows doesn't particularly care which slash direction you give it,
> so no, that changes nothing. I'm not quite sure why it fails with the
> include path this way, maybe some msys shenanigans.
> For fun and giggles, I hard-coded the correct include path in the
> common.mak file and that made config.h show up again of course, but
> the good old compiler error came back just like before.
>
> Might be msys thats interfering here and translating something it
> shouldn't, or double-translating something, I can't really tell just
> from the commands it calls.
> Like I said before, when initial MSVC support was build by Ronald and
> Martin, there were lots of troubles with absolute paths, which in the
> end were solved by not using them (sorry, no answers here).

Is there any reason why we're using absolute paths then? Can't we just
stick to relative paths with forward slashes since they seem to work
with all tools?

I added some code to x264's configure some time ago to convert
absolute paths into relative paths just in order to avoid some
MSYS/Cygwin headaches.


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