[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg-0.10.4 does not build on recent Fedora 17

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Reindl Harald <h.reindl <at> thelounge.net> writes:

> %global ff_configure \
> ../configure \\\

Just a few random comments:

>     --prefix=%{_prefix} \\\
>     --bindir=%{_bindir} \\\
>     --datadir=%{_datadir}/ffmpeg \\\
>     --incdir=%{_includedir}/ffmpeg \\\
>     --libdir=%{_libdir} \\\
>     --mandir=%{_mandir} \\\
>     --arch=%{_target_cpu} \\\

>     --extra-cflags="-O3 -march=corei7 -mtune=corei7 -mmmx 
> -msse2 -msse3 -msse4.1 -msse4.2 -fopenmp -mfpmath=sse 
> -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -pipe 
> -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions" \\\

I am really curious:
Has any of these options a positive effect?
If yes, I suspect they should be made default.

[...]

>     --enable-avfilter \\\
>     --enable-postproc \\\
>     --enable-swscale \\\
>     --enable-bzlib \\\
>     --enable-zlib \\\

These should be default and are therefore unneeded.

>     --enable-libfreetype \\\

>     --enable-pthreads \\\

Default (or am I wrong?)

>     --enable-fastdiv \\\
>     --enable-pic \\\

If one of these two is needed (and good), I would suspect a bug.
Could you elaborate?

>     --enable-libopencv \\\
>     --enable-shared \\\

>     --disable-libspeex \\\

Default

>     --disable-vdpau \\\
>     --disable-vaapi \\\
>     --disable-hwaccels \\\
>     --disable-static \\\

>     --disable-libdc1394 \\\

Default

>     --disable-devices \\\

>     --disable-amd3dnow \\\
>     --disable-amd3dnowext \\\

Are you distributing the binaries?

>     --disable-protocol=gopher \\\
>     --disable-debug

Carl Eugen