306943 – media-video/ffmpeg-0.5_p20373 needs pkg-config for building

Bug 306943 - media-video/ffmpeg-0.5_p20373 needs pkg-config for building

Summary: media-video/ffmpeg-0.5_p20373 needs pkg-config for building

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project

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Reported:	2010-02-26 11:35 UTC by Nikoli
Modified:	2010-03-13 14:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Nikoli 2010-02-26 11:35:25 UTC

dev-util/pkgconfig is not installed in my system, but ffmpeg needs it for configure:

>>> Preparing source in /tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-0.5_p20373/work/ffmpeg-0.5_p20373 ...                                         
>>> Source prepared.                                                                                                                                          
>>> Configuring source in /tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-0.5_p20373/work/ffmpeg-0.5_p20373 ...                                       
true                                                                                                                                                          
./configure: line 2307: pkg-config: command not found                                                                                                         
./configure: line 2308: pkg-config: command not found                                                                                                         
ERROR: libschroedinger not found

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -C dev-util/pkgconfig
2. emerge -Dv media-video/ffmpeg

Comment 1 Reimar Döffinger 2010-02-26 17:43:24 UTC

Not exactly, ffmpeg tries its utmost to avoid depending on pkg-config, however due to their design it is impossible to use dirac and schroedinger without pkg-config.
The two are the only ones for which FFmpeg needs pkg-config.
Possible solutions:
1) Make libschroedinger/libdirac depend on pkg-config. While I'd consider that somewhat correct I expect others might not consider it a good idea.
2) Make schroedinger/dirac use flags depend on pkg-config.

Comment 2 Nikoli 2010-02-26 18:35:02 UTC

>Make libschroedinger/libdirac depend on pkg-config
why they should depend on it?

>Make schroedinger/dirac use flags depend on pkg-config.

this is the best solution.

Comment 3 Nikoli 2010-03-12 18:00:40 UTC

any progress?

Comment 4 Luca Barbato gentoo-dev

2010-03-13 14:34:09 UTC

Hi, thanks for the notice, fixed in cvs now =)