[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/2] extra/tools: Require a protoc version that's compatible with our contribs

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, at 14:07, Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017, at 01:49 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> > I don't think this is necessary : our contribs accept any version of
> > protobuf.
> > 
> > Moreover, there is no reason that compiling with protoc 2.6 and
> > libprotoc 2.6 is impossible.
> 
> If you have the libprotobuf contrib version (3.1) and a protoc 2.6, it
> sure is impossible to build anything requiring protobuf.

If you have libprotobuf present , the contrib will not be built.

Forcing protoc to be at 3.1 will not change this.

The compatibility problem is a different problem and this does not fix
it.

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