[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #56985] [octave forge] (video) cannot find avformat.h on Fedora

[Colin Macdonald]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56985>

                 Summary: [octave forge] (video) cannot find avformat.h on
Fedora
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: cbm
            Submitted on: Thu 03 Oct 2019 02:28:28 AM UTC
                Category: Octave Forge Package
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Installation Failure
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

I tried install the hg tip version of octave-video:


configure: error: FFMpeg header avformat.h not found
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for mkoctfile... yes
checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes
checking for av_mallocz in -lavutil... yes
checking for sws_scale in -lswscale... yes
checking for av_frame_alloc in -lavcodec... yes
checking for av_write_frame in -lavformat... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking ffmpeg/avformat.h usability... no
checking ffmpeg/avformat.h presence... no
checking for ffmpeg/avformat.h... no
checking libavformat/avformat.h usability... no
checking libavformat/avformat.h presence... no
checking for libavformat/avformat.h... no

pkg: error running the configure script for video.
make: *** [Makefile:82: install] Error 1
[octave-video.hg] 


I noticed there is "ffmpeg/libavformat/avformat.h" on my machine:

# locate -i avformat.h
/usr/include/ffmpeg/libavformat/avformat.h


This is from the ffmpeg-devel package.





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