Andreas, please CC kopete-devel next time. We discussed that there during the last 2 weeks. This has been a commit to the trunk (far away from the next release) and it really didn't break anything essential. So it would have been nice if you had consulted the devel-list before reverting it. Please join the list for discussion.
Andreas Hartmetz schrieb: > SVN commit 1087015 by ahartmetz: > > Do not refuse to build without libv4l2 because Kopete also works without v4l, > > only the webcam part won't work. > Why do you want to compile Kopete without webcam-support on Linux and how would you do that ? If you really insist on keeping this as an option, please modify the cmake-files to not search for libv4l in that case. > Note to bug reporters using source distros: > you should know what you're doing and understand dependencies. > It's also incosistent to depend on something that is really not essential > only when compiling on a specific platform. I don't agree. Like it or not, libv4l *is* de facto essential in todays Linux-world. It provides all the device-specific-decoders, which the kernel-deves decided to "push them out somewhere to userspace". This is a highly political issue, but we simply have to accept the current situation and have to manage it. There are too many bug reports about not or poorly working webcams and most of them are caused by packages compiled without libv4l. > libv4l is also not easy to > impossible to compile on old kernels where the rest of Kopete works fine. > libv4l compiles at least on the last 8 kernel-versions (and likely on olders, too). Tells us, how far should we go with backwards-compatibility ? ;) Regards, Frank _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list kopete-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
