In the script configure, while going through all AST_EXT_LIB_SETUP, I find more and more code which is dead. That means, external projects are not used anymore too. This time, this is HAVE_FFMPEG, HAVE_SDL, HAVE_SDL_IMAGE, HAVE_VIDEODEV_H, and HAVE_X11.
That code is not maintained anymore since June 2008. It is guarded by the Define HAVE_VIDEO_CONSOLE. The project was called "console_video". It is used in the Console Channel Driver for the Open Sound System (channels/chan_oss). That Define must be set manually, therefore this code slipped through all the years. In the year 2011, with GitHub-Commit c26c190 for Asterisk 10, it got disabled completely. The problem is not so much the dead code. Those libraries/headers are detected, with every ./configure. Since Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (or even earlier) the following packages are involved: - libavcodec-dev, fails because symbol moved to libswscale/swscale.h - libavutil-dev, fails because Defines used but not included - libswscale-dev, fails because header file moved + libsdl1.2-dev + libsdl-image1.2-dev - libv4l-dev, fails because header file moved to libv4l1-videodev.h + libx11-dev This might confuse novice users who read the output of ./configure: "Video, I want video. Why can't I configure that? Why does it fail?" People waste time understanding and enabling this. Even after - changing those two paths in the script configure and in the source, - #define HAVE_VIDEO_CONSOLE not in chan_oss.c but in console_video.h, - #include <libavutil/pixfmt.h> in channels/vgrabbers.c for PIX_FMT_, still the code does not build. Too much changed in Asterisk and FFmpeg in the last ten years. I asked the original author Luigi Rizzo and he is not using that code anymore himself. Therefore, what about removing those parts within the configure script, at least? -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-dev mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
