vlc | branch: master | Rémi Denis-Courmont <[email protected]> | Thu Dec 5 18:15:52 2013 +0200| [193af819395cefa6973641035b32b5042fc42593] | committer: Rémi Denis-Courmont
contrib: documentation update > http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=193af819395cefa6973641035b32b5042fc42593 --- contrib/src/README | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contrib/src/README b/contrib/src/README index 5d3752c..581a392 100644 --- a/contrib/src/README +++ b/contrib/src/README @@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ should be listed in the PKGS special variable. See some examples: PKGS += x264 endif +If a package is a dependency of another package, but it is not a +direct dependency of VLC, then it should NOT be added to PKGS. The +build system will automatically build it via dependencies (see below). + Some packages may be provided by the target system. This is especially common when building natively on Linux or BSD. When this situation is detected, the package name should be added to the PKGS_FOUND special @@ -79,7 +83,7 @@ variable. The build system will then skip building this package: endif Note: The need_pkg function always return 1 during cross-compilation. -This is a bug. +This is a known bug. Dependencies _______________________________________________ vlc-commits mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-commits
