[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Detect extern_prefix correctly on OpenBSD

[Edd Barrett]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:30:35AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Why is this patch necessary, what is the error?

You are right in guessing nm has no -P on OpenBSD. The cut stuff is because
additional columns are printed, but we only want the one with the symbol name
in.
 
> If OpenBSD's nm is missing that option it would be better to fix nm
> once instead of patching trillions of ports forever.

Although it is quite rare to see nm in a configure script, I think you are
right. Added to my TODO list.

cheers

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