[MPlayer-dev-eng] won't compile on FreeBSD8.1 (dvdio.h)

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:36:17PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 03:06:41PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:51:39PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > It's normally not a problem but "someone" cleaned up configure and now
> > > these kind of issues become visible.
> > 
> > I'm actually proud of my achievements in this area :)
> 
> I kept my mail on purpose vague ;-).

:)

> Cleanup is good, but I think you are rather optimistic as to how
> much crap is necessary vs. how much is actually there for a very
> good reason.

I can assure you that most of the crap in the build system was not
there for a good reason.

> Admittedly it not being documented is a good reason to
> try, but still it would be nicer to do it a bit more carefully
> for platforms you can't/won't test yourself.

It would be nice if the fringe platforms like *BSD got their act together
and fixed their stuff instead of complaining.  I doubt we shall see the
day though.

In the meantime I consider breaking broken fringe platforms every once
in a while a necessary cost of life.  Fixing them is OK and I will do
it when issues are pointed out, but I don't think we should let them
hold us back while doing development.

Diego