On Tuesday 26 May 2015 03:51:44 B Watson wrote: > Another thing about building ffmpeg: it uses texi2html to generate the > developer documentation, and chokes if it can't find it in the $PATH > (usually because the user did plain 'su' instead of 'su -', or because > the T series isn't installed). There's even extra code in there to check > for texi2html... And I'd estimate 99% of people running the build script > are never going to read the ffmpeg dev docs, because they're not writing > code that uses ffmpeg (they just need it for transcoding movies, or as a > dependency for something else). > > Forcing people to jump through hoops to build documentation they're > never going to read is annoying
I've always considered this my tiny contribution towards educating users to do things properly. I realize it's annoying, but it's intentionally so and at this point is already far less confrontational than earlier versions used to be. I don't intend to make any more concessions, sorry. Grs, Heinz
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