Bootstrapping libav on a new architecture

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Tue Jun 19 14:14:20 UTC 2012


Am 19.06.2012 13:45, schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
> Reinhard Tartler dixit:
>> Well, I take that as another reason to use the cond_enable macro in
>> debian/confflags for these libraries, because this way you do not even
>> have to edit any file, but can just bootstrap with 'dpkg-buildpackage
>> -d -b'.

I have already done this in GIT, plus some tidy-up work.

>> Maybe we should leave a note in README.Debian or README.source stating that
>> there are known circular build-dependencies that complicate bootstrapping, but
>> that the affected codecs are strictly optional to libav and the circles could
>> get forced open by simply leaving them out of libav's Build-Depends.
>
> And that would dot the i ;-)

Added as debian/README.source.

  - Fabian



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