[MPlayer-cvslog] r26639 - trunk/configure

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:03:56AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 05:21:09AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 03:48:11AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > 
> > > But somehow the "braindead" sounds like the
> > > original reasons for this are not understood. And that sounds all to
> > > familar, changes being done because the original reasons, original
> > > designs or original code is plain not understood instead of anything
> > > being wrong with it.
> > 
> > This assumes that (good) original reasons and designs exist and are
> > worth preserving.  For large parts of MPlayer this assumption is not a
> > sound one.
> 
> Even the worst code quite often had good reasons originally (if we
> ignore the cases of bad coders with too little review), but due to icc
> support and generally improved compiler quality (even if not as improved
> as we would like) the previous code indeed was overkill IMO, but as it
> is now on the other hand is really taking it a bit too far, especially
> since contrary to what I thought making the Sun C compiler work is
> really non-trivial now and needs a bit annoying changes (e.g. commenting
> out the "die" is not enough since it still tries overriding with gcc,
> even when there is an explicit --cc= option, and even changing that
> might still leave cc_vendor set to gnu...

Let's see if you like the current (work in progress) version better.

Diego