#249 Configuration fails on OpenSUSE 13.1 64bit when libs are not passed as an argument

[Aphy]

./configure

just throws

configure: error: Could not find libavformat - part of ffmpeg
even though libs are installed. To make it work, you have to run

./configure LIBS="-lm -lavformat -lavcodec -lavutil -lpthread -lz"

I'd love to see the configure script working without any additional arguments.

[Justin Maggard]

How did you install the libraries? I don't see any ffmpeg/libav packages in the OpenSUSE 13.1 distro.

[Aphy]

Sorry for the late reply, I wasn't at home. About your question: I don't remember every detail. Should be something similar to the regular configure/make/make install stuff. "ffmpeg --version" outputs

ffmpeg version 2.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jan 13 2014 09:33:59 with gcc 4.8 (SUSE Linux)
configuration:
libavutil 52. 48.101 / 52. 48.101
libavcodec 55. 39.101 / 55. 39.101
libavformat 55. 19.104 / 55. 19.104
libavdevice 55. 5.100 / 55. 5.100
libavfilter 3. 90.100 / 3. 90.100
libswscale 2. 5.101 / 2. 5.101
libswresample 0. 17.104 / 0. 17.104
Unrecognized option '-version'.
Error splitting the argument list: Option not found

Also note that the message about missing libavformat also appears if I just omit the -lz :/

[Aphy]

Update: I've just installed a new version of ffmpeg and noticed it does not install shared libraries by default. After telling configure to build those, it worked. Sorry for being a noob and making a fuss about nothing.