audacity 1.3.7-1 ready

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> I'm a bit confused. You mean that '--with-ffmpeg=system' you still need
>> to patch the ldflags in the build scripts? If yes, then I didn't
>> understand what --with-ffmpeg=system actually if for. If no, then we
>> should probably do that.
>
> No, I don't *need* to.
>
> Even if you build --with-ffmpeg=system the ffmpeg libraries are dlopened
> from audacity. Audacity does not get linked against these libs, so our
> packages don't have hard depends against the ffmpeg libs. AFAIUI it only
> uses the headers installed on the system and choses a sane preset for
> the library file names to look for in the preferences dialog.

oh, I see.

> Personally, I'd rather have a hard dependency of audacity against the
> ffmpeg libraries, because it is not warranted that the library which you
> choose to dlopen is the same as the one you took the headers from. I
> fear this *might* impose problems...

indeed, this should really be discussed with audacity upstream.

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