[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] tools/target_dec_fate.sh: print some statistics

Carl Eugen Hoyos ceffmpeg at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 21:09:04 EET 2018



> Am 29.12.2018 um 17:40 schrieb Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com>:
> 
>> On 29/12/2018 09:47, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
>> I believe this is the sort of math that won't work on old, non-POSIX
>> Bourne shells. (I'm thinking Solaris /bin/sh here.) In case that
>> even matters.
> 
> I don't think we care about those, e.g.:
> 
>    ~/ffmpeg$ grep '+1)' configure
>            eval ${pvar}_level=$(($level+1))

configure automatically chooses a (gnu) bash-compatible Shell on Solaris (this is impossible to avoid), all other FFmpeg scripts use another shell at least on some systems, this for example affects the versioning of shared libraries.

I find this difficult to test though.

Carl Eugen


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