On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM softworkz . <softworkz-at-hotmail....@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-boun...@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Ramiro > > Polla > > Sent: Dienstag, 27. Mai 2025 03:33 > > To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > > Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/5] configure: remove build-time check for > > gzip support in zlib > > > > We currently test at build-time whether zlib supports decoding gzip. > > This is not needed for the build to succeed, since only the gzip > > command is necessary to perform compression at build-time. > > > > Presumably this check will help the user by not enabling compression at > > build-time if their system won't be able to decompress at runtime. > > > > But there are no guarantees that the system where the build is made is > > the same system where it will run. The build system could support gzip > > in zlib, but not the system at runtime, or the other way around. > > What about static builds? Doesn't the check test exactly the zlib lib > that will go into the binary?
Perhaps, but it's an unnecessary test in any case. test_exec should only be used for very important tests. Ramiro _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
