[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH V5 1/2] configure: sort decoder/encoder/filter/... names in alphabet order

[Lauri Kasanen]

On Wed, 1 May 2019 22:57:47 +0200
Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2019-04-28 3:18 GMT+02:00, Alexander Strasser <eclipse7 at gmx.net>:
>
> > What do you think about using awk instead of shell?
>
> Do we only use awk for --enable-random and the dependency
> files so far? Does configure also work without awk now and
> would this change?

It seems awk is unconditionally required already. However I wanted to
say that it's a very nice dep to have: easy to build, present almost
everywhere, even in busybox. Nothing like perl/tcl or worse,
python/java/rust/go.

- Lauri