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

[Paul Jarc]

Rüdiger Kuhlmann <mplayer-list-UGa6JdjLujS2 at ruediger-kuhlmann.de> wrote:
> If you're a developer, then you have your standard tools. autoconf is just
> one of them, whether you like it or not.

I think it's a good idea to use *some* automatic build script
generator, but I'm not especially fond of autoconf in particular.
It's entirely reasonable to do development using a different generator
and not have autoconf installed.

> So it's actually reasonable to expect developers to have a recent
> version of it.

The burden is greater than that: all *users* who use CVS checkouts
have to have it.

> If those files change rarely, then just make a new CVS snapshot
> including autogenerated files (and without removing the CVS subdirs)
> as soon as it does change, and it's no problem again.

Sure, that's one option.  But keeping the generated files in CVS is
also reasonable in some situations.

This is getting OT; let's take it off-list if you'd like to continue.


paul