[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] clean up tests in configure

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Thu Jun 30 19:35:46 CEST 2005


Hi,
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 07:08:54PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:44:13PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 02:45:44PM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> > > Well, as somebody else should have said this new syntax may be faster,
> > > consuming less memory but it is more hackinsh and hard to understand
> > > and modify (easier to make mistakes).
> > > 
> > > But if we should choose to have faster configure and to have easy to
> > > read&modify configure I choose the second.
> > 
> > I choose the former. :) It's already too damn slow like autosh*t...
> 
> I don't agree in principle but I don't see how -a/-o is less readable than
> &&/||.  It's shorter and faster so it should be preferred.

Well, I think after a bit of getting used to it, the -a/-o seems
actually just as readable to me...
But whatever the case, at least some consistency would be nice...

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger




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