From 326ede48aeadf72b870c53ea08ecd79144812112 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Niedermayer Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 17:53:02 +0000 Subject: custom build system documentation Originally committed as revision 25375 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk --- doc/build_system.txt | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/build_system.txt (limited to 'doc/build_system.txt') diff --git a/doc/build_system.txt b/doc/build_system.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b22ff8487d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/build_system.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +FFmpeg currently uses a custom build system, this text attempts to document +some of its obscure features and options. + +Options to make: +make V=1 + Build target with verbosity 1, instead of 1, 2 can be used too + + +Useful standard make commands: +make -t + Touch all files that otherwise would be build, this is useful to reduce + unneeded rebuilding when changing headers, but note you must force rebuilds + of files that actually need it by hand then. + +make -j + rebuild with multiple jobs at the same time. Faster on multi processor systems + +make -k + continue build in case of errors, this is useful for the regression tests + sometimes but note it will still not run all reg tests. + + +Targets to make: +fate-list + Will list all fate/regression test targets + +fate + Run the fate test suite, note you must have installed it + + +Setting up local fate: +use the following command to get the fate test samples +rsync -aL rsync://rsync.mplayerhq.hu:/samples/fate-suite/ fate/fate-suite +pass --samples= to configure -- cgit v1.2.3