[FFmpeg-devel] [patch] allow build env to force sdl-config path via $SDL_CONFIG

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:49:15PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2008 12:56 PM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 04:30:29PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:58:57PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:56:25PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:30:58PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > > > ive looked through the latest version of configure in svn trunk and it
> > > > > > is certainly much tighter than the last time i looked.  most of the
> > > > > > behavior i had to patch around has been replaced with
> > > > > > traditional/expected behavior.  which is to say the current result
> > > > > > mimics a standard autoconf script fairly well.
> > > > >
> > > > > Great, so we have managed to be as good as auto* without all the gripes.
> > > > > Case closed.
> > > >
> > > > I'll also have to note that autotools is clearly on the way out in a lot
> > > > of places, KDE being the last high profile case I remember.
> > >
> > > Really? That would be great news if they replace it by something better,
> > > KDE caused the most compilation problems for me ever, most often due to broken
> > > auto* scripts...
> >
> > They switched to cmake IIRC.
> 
> they did.  too bad cmake lacks core functionality that autotools takes
> for granted (like cross-compiling).

Somehow the KDE project still thinks that cmake is the better tradeoff.

I threw away two precious hours of my life trying to get libmpeg2 to
compile on Mac OS X PPC yesterday.  Or rather getting the autotools to
the point that there was something that would react to 'make'...

Diego