[Ffmpeg-devel] Bizarre build problem of the day (original) (raw)

Ivan Kalvachev ikalvachev
Fri Feb 24 09:06:46 CET 2006

2006/2/24, William Beebe :

Yes, I read that article from another link. I have no problem with it. Software licensing either tells you up front that you can't copy and redistribute it (Microsoft, Adobe, etc), or that you can (Linux, FireFox, etc). Based on that simple binary rule, you can stay out of trouble... at least in most parts of the world.

2006/2/24, William Beebe :

No. As I stated earlier, it only occurs at the tail end of configuration. After a successful configuration it builds, links, and runs just fine.

That was joke (but under windows you may never know). The point is that if it hangs when writing files, is totally unrelated to some camera services. The first thing that comes into my mind is that it probably have rooted the kernel to intercept file operations. This is what Sony rootkit does in order to hide the DRM part, and it hides everything that starts with SYSSYSSYS. Trashing your system despite any (in)validity of any licenses.

If you think that the problem is in configure you can run it this way: bash -x ./configure this way you will see every executed line and you can get what is executed when it hangs.

To monitor you system you can use some of the http://sysinternals.com programs. These are from same people that found what Sony rootkit does.

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