[FFmpeg-cvslog] r24370 - trunk/Makefile

[Måns Rullgård]

Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:14:23PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:
>> > Might cause issues for automated systems that don't expect things
>> > to hang forever.
>> > How about writing "... changed, rerunning configure in 10 seconds"
>> > and then sleep for 10 seconds?
>> > Allows to abort and even to "touch" the right file to avoid having
>> > to rerun configure if really desired.
>> 
>> Ridiculous.  The options are:
>> 
>> 1. Do nothing.  Old behaviour.
>> 2. Rerun configure.  Current.
>> 3. Print warning and carry on.  Easy to do.
>
> Maybe I miss something, but what would be the point of that?

The point of what?  Those are _alternatives_.  When you hard-to-please
people have decided on one, I will implement it.

> It would be pretty hard to miss the fact that configure is executed,
> and its huge output would hide the message anyway.
> And after incorporating your comment there's still
>
> 4. Print a warning and ridiculously sleep for a few seconds then carry on.
>
> Ok, configure is probably slow enough that the sleep doesn't
> really change anything I guess.

Yes.

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