[vlc-devel] [PATCH 7/7] configure: allow a --disable-v4l2

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:04:53 +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 08:00:22PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
>> Le jeudi 22 septembre 2011 19:46:54 Jean-Baptiste Kempf, vous avez
écrit
>> :
>> > This is needed because some distro have broken headers
>> 
>> While I don't see any opportunity for that particular kernel header to 
>> "break", autoconf ignores broken headers anyway, so this patch is
>> utterly
>> pointless.
> 
> Unfortunately, on the broken Android, the right headers are present, but
> broken, for example, missing V4L2_FIELD_INTERLACED_BT or other things of
> the same kind.

It's an addition from version 2.6.22. Maybe the plug-in lacks correct
version checks.

Generally, I don't like to rely --disable-* to fix compilation.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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