[MPlayer-dev-eng] .developer cruft

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 04:23:40PM +0200, joerg at britannica.bec.de wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:05:40PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > - removing the dependency on configure that forces rebuild whenever
> >   configure has changed (it's wrong anyway since configure needs to be
> >   rerun first).
> 
> If you do that, please change configure to not overwrite config.h
> directly, but create it e.g. as config.h.new. When configure finished,
> compare the old and new config.h and move it over when they differ.
> This avoids recompilations, even if configure changed but doesn't have
> any effect on the current platform.

Good idea.

Diego