[Bf-committers] ffmpeg upgrade in extern : end of the story

[Martin Poirier]

Alright Benoit, thanks for trying.

I suppose the problem is not limited to linux though, scons+mingw would have the same issue, right?

Martin


--- On Sat, 3/21/09, Benoit Bolsee <benoit.bolsee at online.be> wrote:

> From: Benoit Bolsee <benoit.bolsee at online.be>
> Subject: [Bf-committers] ffmpeg upgrade in extern : end of the story
> To: bf-committers at blender.org
> Received: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 4:09 PM
> Since the ffmpeg web site was up again, I attempted the
> upgrade of
> ffmpeg in extern. Alas, it failed for the same reasons I
> explained
> before: the Sconscript scans the ffmpeg Makefiles and
> assumes that all
> the objects collected under $(OBJS) are .c files but it is
> not true
> anymore: some asm files are now mixed up with the .c files.
> While this
> is not a problem for make, which can handle mulitple
> dependency rules,
> Sconscript with its simplistic assumptions fails to find
> the correct
> source. 
>  
> So I'm giving up upgrading ffmpeg to version 0.5. I
> have a patch that
> allows to compile blender with the old and the new ffmpeg
> but I don't
> see the point of commiting it (only useful for Windows
> where the new
> ffmpeg libs are available, but not yet commited). 
> Somebody will have to fix the mess with Scons if we want to
> upgrade to
> 0.5. For my part I've wasted enough time on that.
>  
> Regards,
> Benoit
>  
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