OK, I did do away with using sudo and with a few permissions related changes,
I was able to build ffmpeg.
But the problem remains.
Also, I tried removing the libvmaf.dylib and libvmaf.1.dylib and just retain
the libvmaf.a (since I only care for a static build). Now I have a problem
configuring ff
I built libVMAF (libvmaf_v2.0.0) using the following procedure:
(a) Modified Makefile to add /--default-library static/ and a prefix as
meson setup args.
(b) sudo make clean
(c) sudo make
(d) sudo mae install
=> This created the binary, libraries, pkg, and include files in the
/$prefixdir/bin, $pr