[MPlayer-cvslog] r25139 - trunk/configure

[Balatoni Denes]

Hi!

Tuesday 27 November 2007 03:25-kor Michael Niedermayer ezt írta:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:59:26AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 01:17:49PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > i tend to agree as well ...
> > > btw which OS / shells are affected by the change?
> >
> > The broken stuff that Solaris ships as default.  I'm not sure if it
> > still affects Solaris 10/11, but they have sane shells available.

Indeed, there are sane shells available on Solaris - why, the whole gnu 
userspace is available. But I would guess that the default sh is the same 
crap in new solaris, because of backward compatibility (which they have 
always strived for).

> anyway if all platforms which needed this hack have posix shells available
> then ive no objections to removing it, i just wonder why it was added in
> the first place ...

I am guessing again, but maybe it was to make mplayer compilable on Solaris 
out-of-the-box.

bye
Denes