[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] List enabled code in configure output

[Ramiro Polla]

Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:39:26PM -0300, Ramiro Polla wrote:
>>>>> The ${space:0:$length}
>>>> Replaced with a while loop that adds one space at a time.
>>> I'm not having anything of the kind.  What's this patch good for
>>> anyway?
>> As has already been discussed before in [1], some people would like for 
>> configure to print out which codecs and formats have been selected. I 
>> would like to have this feature, and Michael said he likes it too.
>>
>> I didn't like the fact that it would output one really long unreadable 
>> line. I also wouldn't like if it was one entry per line, since that 
>> would make configure's output really, really long. I suggest something 
>> in between: using show_list, print the output tabulated with 8 spaces. 
>> But I didn't find a way to make the code portable and elegant at the 
>> same time.
>>
>> show_list_1.diff makes show_list much faster, so I think it should be 
>> applied independent of the rest of this discussion.
>>
>> These are 3 possibilities of implementing listing the selected output:
>> show_list_2.diff prints one entry per line (long output).
>> show_list_3.diff prints them sequentially (long lines).
>> And another option is tabulating the output. Would you be against this 
>> kind of output, even if we managed to get the source code to be portable 
>> and clean?
> 
> This kind of thing can probably be done easily with sed...

I failed to find a simple way to do it that doesn't involve a loop, 
either in the script or in the sed command through labels, or a function 
that returns one up to 8 spaces, which is also ugly.

Of course, there's no point in me trying further if the tabulated output 
is not accepted, although I find it nicer to look at.

Mans, we can't (always) guess your preference unless you speak up. 
What's your opinion?
1. All entries in same line
2. One per line
3. Tabulated output
4. I'll cook up something I like better later
5. None of the above and no selected features will ever be printed out

Ramiro Polla