[MPlayer-cvslog] r26639 - trunk/configure

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Reimar Döffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 07:45:20PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>  > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 07:41:55PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>  > > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 07:32:52PM +0200, diego wrote:
>  > > >
>  > > > Log:
>  > > > Remove --disable-gcc-check option and related code.
>  > >
>  > > It is not a big deal, but I am not too happy about having to hack
>  > > configure for compile-testing with e.g. Sun's C compiler.
>  >
>  > I'll look into it.  The idea of rejecting unknown compilers is braindead
>  > IMO.  The logic should accept, not reject, by default.
>
>  I don't know, there are quite a lot of compiler (versions) that have problems with
>  MPlayer code I think...

I'm also not happy from this change. I find it controversial.

One of the side effects is that we are not going to be notified if
there are unknown (to us) compilers that compile mplayer correctly.
Also breakage caused by unsupported compiler would be harder to find.