Re: gtk4 and ffmpeg

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%talktalk.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 01:23:48PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 01:04:37PM +0000, pin wrote:
> > As of now building gtk4 pulls in ffmpeg5. I'm aware that was/is
> > an issue with gtk4 and ffmpeg6. Does anyone know if it's safe to
> > switch to ffmpeg6 or is the issue still relevant?
> 
> Last time I looked, the gtk bug essentially said gtk would welcome a
> patch to support ffmpeg6 but didn't plan on working on it.
> 
> Can you build gtk4 with introspection?
> 
> I reproducibly get PR lib/57792.
> 
> Checking PR that I see RVP made a suggetion - I'll try it ASAP!

It builds on NetBSD!

The underlying issue is that gtk4's meson attempts to
do the equivalent of

  PKGSRC_USE_RELRO=full

and RVP's analysis shows that ld.elf_so can't cope with that.

Patch to be submitted soon...


Cheers,

Patrick