[MPlayer-dev-eng] configuration patch to allow setting of ar from the commandline

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:04:56AM -0400, Marc Hoffman wrote:
> On 8/15/07, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:50:52PM -0400, Marc Hoffman wrote:
> > > On 8/15/07, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:34:11AM -0400, mmh wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > patch to allow toplevel configuration change of the librarian. Needed
> > > > > for cross compilation on some platforms where ar has a different
> > > > > implementation e.g. macosx->linux.
> > > >
> > > > Apply.
> > >
> > > I need to do the same with ranlib, can I bring that out as well?
> >
> > Yes.
> 
> Done and commited.

You (and I during review) missed adding the new option to the help
output.

> I was thinking it might be real nice to configure
> those automatically somehow.  I'm not sure how one might go about
> this.  Here is a stab at it just so you get the idea.  Most configure
> environments support this type of target option and default tools
> setup.
> 
> 
> .e.g. given on the commandline --target=xxx-yyy-zzz then:
> _cc=${_target}-gcc
> ...
> 
> You really do need to run the commandline twice or, make it have this
> type of semantics when its the first ac_option.

I don't see why it needs to be run twice ..

> sorry for the inline patch I'm posting from gmail

Since you can apply your own patches this is not a problem.

Diego