[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] unify include paths in the build system

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 02:10:25PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Friday, 14 July 2006 at 01:43, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > Attached you will find one half of a patch that starts to unify the way
> > we handle include paths.  Everything is put in EXTRA_INC instead of
> > littering the build system with many different FOO_INC variables.
> > 
> > The configure part is not completely done yet, as a next step we could
> > eliminate all the --with-fooincdir options.  I'd appreciate if people
> > could test this in different environments, though.  All compilation bugs
> > should already show themselves ;-)
> 
> I agree that it simplifies things for us. However, if someone has all those
> libs installed in non-standard places like each one in its own /opt/libfoo
> directory then they're going to have to put a lot of paths in
> --with-extraincdir. No objections though.

True.  Apart from getting long cc command lines there should be no ill
effects, though.  None that I am aware of that is, which is the reason
why I'd like for this patch to see some testing...

Diego