[Gnash-dev] Re: ffmpeg vs libmad

[Stefan Schweizer]

Rob Savoye wrote:
> I think for the release we might want to use libmad, instead of ffmpeg.
> While testing on various platforms, I found out on Ubuntu this brought
> in a bunch of dependencies, vorbisenc, libgsm, and theora. I added code
> to ffmpeg.m4 to handle this, but thought maybe we should just make
> libmad the default for this release just to simplify the installation.
> I'm flexible, so I thought I'd see what others think.

Just use -Wl,--as-needed while linking and you will not get any
dependencies. Those are no real dependencies but just dependencies of
dependencies which do not count.

- Stefan