From 8025ac289bee401f6511ee319c2d6c9c93a97322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Sebastian=20Dr=C3=B6ge?= Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 12:06:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] configure.ac: Remove warning when building against a system version of libav Nowadays libav has proper releases and API/ABI guarantees. We're not living in last decade. --- configure.ac | 32 -------------------------------- 1 file changed, 32 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 10fb8ac..d4e095b 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -257,39 +257,7 @@ if test "x$with_system_libav" = "xyes"; then AC_DEFINE([LIBAV_SOURCE], ["system install"], [Describes where the Libav libraries come from.]) HAVE_LIBAV_UNINSTALLED=0 AC_MSG_NOTICE([Using system-installed libav code]) - AC_MSG_WARN([ - ====================================================================== - WARNING: you have chosen to build gst-libav against a random - external version of Libav instead of building it against the tested - internal Libav snapshot that is included with gst-libav. - - This is a very bad idea. So bad in fact that words cannot express - just how bad it is. Suffice to say that it is BAD. - - The GStreamer developers cannot and will not support a gst-libav - built this way. Any bug reports that indicate there is an external - version of Libav involved will be closed immediately without further - investigation. - - The reason such a setup can't be supported is that the Libav API - and ABI is in constant flux, yet there aren't any official releases - of the Libav library to develop against. This makes it impossible - to guarantee that gst-libav will work reliably, or even compile, - with a randomly picked version Libav. Even if gst-libav compiles - and superficially appears to work fine against your chosen external - Libav version, that might just not be the case on other systems, or - even the same system at a later time, or when using decoders, - encoders, demuxers or muxers that have not been tested. - - Please do not create or distribute binary packages of gst-Libav - that link against an external libav. Thank you! - ====================================================================== - ]) - - dnl No, this is not too extreme, we want people to see and read the above - sleep 15 else - AC_MSG_NOTICE([Using local Libav snapshot]) dnl libgstlibav.la: include dirs -- 2.7.4