[MPlayer-users] Re: [PATCH] ./configure syntax error

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 02:43:30AM -0800, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
> 	Apparently /bin/sh doesn't like a unary '!'.   Thus I suggested
> 	using 'test' - which works I believe.
> 
  if ! <cmd> ...;
_is_ standard and _has_ to be supported. same for the && and ||
operators.
a different thing are
  if test ! ...;
and the -a and -o options.


another thing ... i find it a bit annoying that i have to recompile the
complete mplayer every time configure changes (even though it produces
the same output). i suggest that it writes to <file>.new and cmps it
with the old <file> (if one is present). only if they differ, the old
one is substituted. of course config.h can't be used as a stamp file any
more then, but adding a config.stamp is not really a problem, i think.

greetings

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