RFC: cleanup of ffmpeg port

[danchr@…]

In bug #2553, the maintainer of the FFmpeg port submitted a patch which was rejected. This somewhat unusual situation inspired me to do something I've been wanting to do for quite some time: clean up the FFmpeg port.

I've removed all variants, and added dependancies for all supported formats, 9 in total. To ensure that updates to the ports containing these libraries will affect ffmpeg, I've set it to create a shared version of FFmpeg, rather than the usual statically linked version. However, the FFmpeg build system wasn't capable of doing this on Darwin, so I fixed it. Also added support for DESTDIR during installation. Most of these changes ought to be submitted upstream.

Put up here for general feedback, as this is a slightly odd port.

[danchr@…]

patch against dports/ffmpeg

[olegb@…]

merge it - says I... Harrggg.

da' sooner da' bettah!

The maintainer hasn't bitched about it - so, please, commit! (and closed the bug :-) )

[blb@…]

Dan, would you be interested in changing your patch into a Portfile for a port named ffmpeg-devel (since that's somewhat what your patch is doing) and updating?

[danchr@…]

Unassigning since I no longer use DarwinPorts.

[olegb@…]

closed - new ffmpeg -> this dies of age.