[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Alternative way of generating dependencies

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:39:43AM +0200, Ivo wrote:
> 
> While I was catching up with the ffmpeg-devel mailinglist yesterday, I 
> stumbled upon a thread about suncc's dependency generation. As every 
> compiler seems to act slightly different, I thought about a more generic 
> way to generate dependencies and came up with the following solution (see 
> attached patch). It's not meant for direct inclusion in SVN and perhaps 
> needs some work to integrate nicely into the current build system, hence 
> the [RFC] in the subject.
> 
> What do you think?

I have no strong opinion on this one.

Nonetheless portability of the current system to other compilers should
not be hard.  Just add a DEPEND_CMD for your compiler of choice.

Diego