[MPlayer-DOCS] Build system [patch]

[Diego Biurrun]

Torinthiel writes:
 > On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 08:08:05PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
 > > Torinthiel writes:
 > > I have some small suggestions below.  Also please test it under Cygwin
 > > as that was the original motivation for the build system change.  If
 > > you cannot test it yourself, send it to the mplayer-cygwin list,
 > > somebody there should be able to help you out.  I'd test it myself,
 > > but I do not currently have access to a Windows box I can fiddle with.
 > 
 > Ok, applied almost all, except for one. Sent here, and I will send it to
 > -cygwin as soon as I subscribe it, as I don't use it. And I'll even
 > subscribe (for a brief period of time) to -os2 and -users, to ask if
 > anybody has a different DTD location. Is there a list for MinGW? I think
 > I should also ask there.

mplayer-cygwin also covers MinGW.

 > >  >  distclean:
 > >  > +	rm -f main.xml
 > > 
 > > That's unnecessary in Makefile.inc, it's already removed from within
 > > Makefile upon distclean.  Remove this.
 > 
 > No, it is not the same main.xml file. There is one in xml directory,
 > which contains LANG_CODE, and one in each language subdirectory that
 > contains LANG_CODE sedded to appropriate code. And each one needs to be
 > removed during make.

Oops, I overlooked that, sorry.

 > Maybe I should rename the root file to something indicating it's
 > not usable without changing, but I don't have any sensible
 > idea. Anyway, this is only cosmetics.

template_main.xml sounds reasonable, but there should be a way to do
this directly without the intermediate template_main.xml.  I'll leave
it as an exercise to the reader ;-)

Diego