[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] use gcc instead of calling ld directly

[Paul Jarc]

D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:26:08PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> On another note, it would also be convenient if the autoconf setup
>> were more conventional, so we could pass CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc., in
>> the environment to ./configure.
>
> You can pass them... If it's not working then you're doing something
> wrong; I pass CFLAGS all the time.

CFLAGS seems to work, but CPPFLAGS definitely does not.  I'm not sure
about LDFLAGS.  With a standard autoconf setup, there would also be
CPP, CXXCPP, LIBS, and possibly others, which may be useful for some
people; I only need CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, and LDFLAGS.  I know about
--with-extraincdir, but it would be more convenient if MPlayer worked
the same way as other packages.  Also, I would have more confidence in
an automatically generated configure script; a hand-edited script is
more likely to have bugs, even if it is intended to support all the
same features.


paul