[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] directfb -> pkg-config

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> schrieb:

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> I'm not sure how sysroot works or what it is, but IMO it's incorrrect
> to read any headers from /usr/include if you're building in a
> sandbox/isolated/crosscompiling environment.

ACK. In this case $SYSROOT/usr/include, etc have to be used. 

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> > IMHO the best solution is to simply write an own pkg-config 
> > style script, which handles the packages required by mplayer 
> > and is called if $PKG_CONFIG is not set.
> 
> ....
> 
> This is a very bad solution, since it would need to duplicate a lot 
> of code from configure and would not have as much flexibility in 
> setting variables in the main configure script. 

For example ?

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> It also imposes a bad design (pkg-config) on a fairly decent design 
> (mplayer's configure script).

Any concerete arguments instead of just fundamentalistic phrases ?


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