Bootstrapping libav on a new architecture

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Tue Jun 19 16:54:00 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> 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.

I've had a brief look at the commits, look great to me! Thanks.
-- 
regards,
    Reinhard



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