Steve wrote in email to me as we discussed this: >It's been a long time since I attempted to build against the libav project, >but I've never managed to get this to work, even when carefully following >our documentation and using the versions stated. > >I have always disagreed with Gale's assertion that users should manually build >and install an obsolete version of FFmpeg in order to use FFmpeg with Audacity. >If Audacity is to remain a mainstream application on Linux, it must work >against system library versions that are commonly found in current versions of >Linux. For common libraries, distribution maintainers will attempt to build >Audacity against system libraries. If Audacity does not work when built that >way, it will be dropped from their repository, and Audacity will no longer be >a mainstream application for Linux, and would essentially become >Windows / Mac only. > >Currently, Audacity builds against the system version of FFmpeg on Ubuntu >16.04. >The last time I checked, it also worked with Ubuntu 18.04, so both of the >current "LTS" versions of Ubuntu appear to be covered for now.
I agree with Steve's assertion: >I have always disagreed with Gale's assertion that users should manually build >and install an obsolete version of FFmpeg in order to use FFmpeg with Audacity. Accordingly I shall close this as not a bug -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1076928 Title: FTBFS with libav9 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/audacity/+bug/1076928/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
