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Bug 794912 - gst-libav: configure exits with no error status if configuring internal libav fails
gst-libav: configure exits with no error status if configuring internal libav...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gst-libav
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: git master
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2018-04-02 21:50 UTC by Alistair Buxton
Modified: 2018-11-03 12:58 UTC
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Description Alistair Buxton 2018-04-02 21:50:45 UTC 
Here the configure for gst-libav runs the configure for libav:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-libav/tree/configure.ac#n464

If for some reason the libav configuration fails, the gst-libav configuration does not return an error status. This means if you are building from a script or Makefile, then that script will not realise that an error has occured and will continue to attempt to build gst-libav, with undefined results.

I encountered this in the context of 39df65e8a27496650ea7c36d8d91f48b770ec46a. If I try to build from the commit prior to this one, libav configure will fail as it cannot find gas-preprocessor. Despite this, attempting to compile gst-libav still "succeeds" - in the sense that it also does not return an error. I have no idea what it actually produces, but my build scripts happily pack it up and report success.
Comment 1 GStreamer system administrator 2018-11-03 12:58:41 UTC 
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