Re: [Gnash-dev] ffmpeg version grokking

[Rob Savoye]

Russ Nelson wrote:
> Uhhhhhhh, read ./configure.  It compiles and runs programs natively.
> Configure doesn't NOT work when you're cross-compiling, so I must be
> missing something here.

  Which is why most all the Gnash configure macros don't use compile 
tests. I haven't looked at the latest ffmpeg versioning, but we only use 
it to print the version number in Gnash anyway when --version is used. 
Unless somebody has changed this, maybe it's just easier to do it in 
Gnash itself. If it's still a #define in ffmpeg, often you can get by 
just running cpp (gcc -E) to get the value.

  We definitely *never* want configure tests that have to be run to 
determine anything, as it will break cross compiling.

        - rob -