Re: pkg/35864: 2006Q4 multimedia/ffmpeg with MMX does not build on 4.99.9

["Matthew Mondor" <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/35864; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Matthew Mondor" <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/35864: 2006Q4 multimedia/ffmpeg with MMX does not build on 
4.99.9
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:58:11 -0500 (EST)

 I admit I didn't look if any other software that depended on it, but
 there well could be anytime, since ffmpeg could be wanted because of
 the dynamic libraries alone.
 
 MPlayer appears to embed its own copy (at least of the libraries,
 which is what I was interested in), and these build fine with mmx
 support.  Mplayer however links them statically.  Perhaps that using
 MPlayer releases it wouldn't be too much trouble to automatically
 patch the old ffmpeg tree we're using?
 
 Although this would still seem kludgy of course, but it would allow
 to use two resources which are less likely to change everyday.  I'm
 not even sure how to proceed exactly with pkgsrc if doing this.
 
 Extracting mplayer internally and make it a build dependency like for
 mencoder, then applying custom pkgsrc patches, to then execute a
 script with arbitrary sh/diff/patch/sed/link commands to "fix" ffmpeg,
 to then build it normally?
 -- 
 Matthew Mondor