[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH 2/2] Name the configure log filename by default "config.log" rather than "config.err". The latter is misleading, as the file contains useful information not necessarily related to errors.

[Reinhard Tartler]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel as well.

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 22:37:43 (CEST), Måns Rullgård wrote:

> Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> writes:
>
>> ---
>>  configure |    4 ++--
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/configure b/configure
>> index 25dfb6d..f4693a9 100755
>> --- a/configure
>> +++ b/configure
>> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Options: [defaults in brackets after descriptions]
>>
>>  Standard options:
>>    --help                   print this message
>> -  --logfile=FILE           log tests and output to FILE [config.err]
>> +  --logfile=FILE           log tests and output to FILE [config.log]
>>    --disable-logging        do not log configure debug information
>>    --prefix=PREFIX          install in PREFIX [$prefix]
>>    --bindir=DIR             install binaries in DIR [PREFIX/bin]
>> @@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ doc_deps="texi2html"
>>
>>  # default parameters
>>
>> -logfile="config.err"
>> +logfile="config.log"
>>
>>  # installation paths
>>  prefix_default="/usr/local"
>> -- 
>> 1.7.1
>
> Fine by me.  The name has purely historical reasons.

then please let's change it in mplayer as well!

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4