On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 13:54:12 (CEST), Faheem Mitha wrote:

>>> If so, perhaps point out to the ffmpeg people that their warning is
>>> (at least in some cases) a red herring (alternatively, produces a
>>> false positive), and ask if it could be made more intelligent.
>>
>> The warning is only printed if the configurations differ. It does not
>> tell anything different, nor does it try to guess or suggest what may
>> be the cause of this. so again, I agree with siretart that on systems
>> that support differently configured shared libraries to work with the
>> same backend, this warning should be disabled, because it is a red
>> herring and does not add anything insightful.
>
> Ok. So pointing this out to the ffmpeg people is a waste of time, in
> your opinion?

If it assures you, I'm Upstream Release Manager for both Libav and
FFmpeg  :-)

I'm happy that Fabian agrees with me. I'll see if I can propose some
configure switch for 0.7, but TBH, the trick with building the libraries
in different flavors is a very Debian specific trick that cannot be
upstreamed easily. Nor am I convinced that this should go upstream.

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4



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