[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main configure,1.1055,1.1056

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2005/9/11, Nicolas Plourde <nicolas.plourde at gmail.com>:
> 
> On 11-Sep-05, at 7:58 AM, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 
> > I very much dislike this .
> > 1. It introduce perl as dependency.  Could we assume that it is
> > available on all Darwin machines? What would be next? using java
> > checks for solaris?
> >
> 
> Has I said, yes all darwin system have perl, its needed for system
> operation.
> 
> > 2. The new perl check would service only one reason: to skip the
> > program that checks for MacOSX API.
> > I see no sense.
> 
> It was possible not to add the perl_check function and call it
> directly when needed
> but this way it could be use for other thing in the future.
> 
> >
> > 3. I doubt this check could be done only in perl.
> 
> I agree this patch is not so clean but unless i can figure out a new
> way to do that it will have to
> stay. There is an other way to make the check but I thinks its not
> supported on older osx release
> and darwin. Anyone can figure out a way to do the same xml file
> parsing without perl? that would be great.

Let me formulate my questions again:
Will MacOSX API check (right after your new perl check) give false positives?
How does running binnary programs query the OS details?