Clément Bœsch <u <at> pkh.me> writes: > No it won't work because require_pkg_config dies if > it fails, so you can fallback after it.
True. > Of course we can add another require_pkg_config2() > that takes some explicit linking flags in addition > to the user ones as a fallback. Sounds useful to me. > But really that's insane, because I know you will > end-up hardcoding all kind of linker flags to > these fallback calls, Yes, some external libraries that never have additional dependencies currently depend on pkg-config. > and this defeat completely the purpose of such > simplified code. I thought the purpose is to allow educated developers to use pkg-config while (uneducated) users (like me) will not understand how this is easier than using configure parameters. > They will also almost never be tested, I will care about the testing. (I hope with your help but if necessary I can do it alone.) Thank you, Carl Eugen _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
