[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] de-autoconf configure

[Enrico Weigelt]

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

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> I'll add myself as against it. Making output 'different for the sake
> of being different' is at worst confusing to users and at best a waste
> of time. An autoconf replacement is probably the most useful if it
> looks mostly/entirely the same to users (who are already used to
> autoconf) but works much better inside.

At this point we at least could agree, Rich. 

(I'll open an cold beer on that.*prost*)

The autoconf semantics (aka commad line syntax, etc) aren't so 
bad, IMHO. The problem of autoconf ist "just" that it simply doesn't
work the way it claims to.

> Of course if you have ideas for redoing configure's interface to make
> it more logical and easier to use, I would be willing to consider
> that. But I'm not interested in just obfuscating it just to make it
> look different from autoconf.

In fact there are some things to do, which could make things easier,
ie. for crosscompiling. For example the machine detection stuff:
there should at least be a way for overriding *all* the autodection,
so we don't get code for the wrong machine. 


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