[Slackbuilds-users] ffmpeg-mksrctarball.sh configures error

[Nishant Limbachia]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:42:41 -0500
"Cesar Rodriguez" <cesarrd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello:
> I am a new user of slack, since three weeks ago. I found this some
> days ago but i send this just now because  i am a new user in the
> mailing list so i am not very sure about if i doing the right things.
> I hope ;).
> 
> Well i found two things:
> First: When i try to use the  ffmpeg.SlackBuild script of the pkg
> ffmpeg.tar.gz  with the  ffmpeg-mksrctarball.sh script, for use the
> last version and the last version is  20080402, so i changed the
> VERSION=${VERSION:-20071003} of the ffmpeg.SlackBuild script to
> VERSION=${VERSION:-20080402}, i run the ffmpeg-mksrctarball.sh script
> after tar -xf the ffmpeg.tar.gz and cd into ffmpeg folder. I run the
> ffmpeg.SlackBuild script and i have this
> 
> " ffmpeg-20080402/INSTALL
>   ffmpeg-20080402/Changelog
>   Unknown option "--enable-libogg".
>   See ./configure --help for available options."
> 
> so i saw in the ./configure --help and i don't see the option
> --enable-libogg. Then i read the ./configure --help of the
> ffmpeg-20071003.tar.bz2 and i saw that the configure was different.
> The different are:
> *  The version  ffmpeg-20071003 the ffmpeg.SlackBuild script have
> --enable-libogg but the ./configure script of ffmpeg-20080402 don't
> have this option.
> 
> *  The version  ffmpeg-20071003 the ffmpeg.SlackBuild script have
> --enable-pp (enable GPLed postprocessing support) but now in the
> ./configure script of ffmpeg-20080402 is the option --enable-postproc.
> 
> *  The ffmpeg-20071003 the ffmpeg.SlackBuild script have
> --enable-swscaler (software scaler support) but now in the ./configure
> script of ffmpeg-20080402 is the option --enable-swscale (without r).
> 
I've compiled ffmpeg from source a lot of times and I've noticed they
change configure options quite often.  What was libogg is changed to
libvorbis.  If you are getting new source then you definitely should
do ./configure --help to update the script to use new config switches.

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