[MPlayer-dev-eng] The new Makefiles

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Alban Bedel <albeu at free.fr> wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  so the new flat build system is underway. Sadly IMHO it have a few
>  shortcomings and there is some things that I think we should discuss
>  here before going any further.
>
>  The most important point IMHO, is do we really get rid of the .a or not?
>  On the plus side I only see a few rule less in the Makefile. On the
>  minus side the whole source list is required for any tool using the lib
>  in question.
>
>  Then there is the problem that now all sources are grouped together. It
>  completely prevent any sane build system for the tools. Even if we drop
>  the .a we need to keep a source list for each lib. Anything else is
>  just too inflexible.
>
>  If we keep separate lists we might as well put them in $LIB/Makefile
>  and support building from the lib's dir. The latter is easy to achieve
>  with some include. And still having separate Makefiles would make
>  things easier for newcomers than having to dive in a 5000 lines
>  Makefile.
>
>  As an example, attached is a Makefile for osdep that can be included
>  from the main Makefile or used "alone". Obviously it's just a draft as
>  we still need to settle the above issues, and perhaps some more.


There is something else I wonder about the flat build system.
Does it link objects faster that it links static libraries? Does it
need less memory for linking?