[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] --host-cc for crosscompiling

[Sascha Sommer]

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 09:59, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Sascha Sommer writes:
> > Attached patch adds an option to configure, that allows to use a
> > different compiler for utilitys that need to run on the compiling machine
> > like codecs-cfg. Comments?
>
> What is this good for?
>

If you for example crosscompile MPlayer for windows. You will end up with
codecs-cfg.exe failing to create the header from codecs.conf
With this option it will use the specified compiler to build codecs-cfg in 
order to execute it on linux. While it would be better to use a shellscript 
for the header generation, this patch is probably the best short term 
solution for now.

Sascha