On Sun, 7 May 2017 16:36:43 +0000 Carsten Mattner via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 7 May 2017 14:51:08 +0000 > > Carsten Mattner via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> For various reasons like missing features and wrong version > >> I cannot use arch's ffmpeg package and have to build my own > >> package, and this results in a cyclic dependency I cannot > >> get out of. > > > > What, exactly, is the issue here? You need an ffmpeg package that > > provides what x264 needs, nothing more. > > I cannot install libx264's include/x264.h without installing x264 > which then depends on ffmpeg which itself depends on libx264. > This doesn't look like a hard cycle since it seems like only > the x264 executable needs libav*.so, but since x264.h was in > libx264 (and is in extra still), I've been building a custom > ffmpeg package without also having to build a custom configured > (lib)x264 too. So what? None of that should cause a problem if your custom ffmpeg package is done correctly.
