[Mplayer-dev-eng] configure

[Marcus Comstedt]

>>>>> "Gabucino" == Gabucino  <gabucino at k2.jozsef.kando.hu> writes:

  Gabucino> It's the Question that drives us, André Dahlqvist :
  >> > I'll fix it.
  >> Any reason mplayer doesn't use the standard GNU configure scripts?
  Gabucino> Any reason why use it?

There are several reasons, but the most important is that the
generated tests are more portable and have been developed to test just
the right thing.  When making your own tests, it's easy to make one
which can fail in conditions where it shouldn't becase A) you didn't
think about/know of all conditions that could occur on different
platforms with different shells etc, and B) when writing the tests
manually you have to keep them fairly simple or get far too much extra
work.  

Another good reason is of course that you don't have to type as much.
Many of the things that the current configure script does is handled
automatically by autoconf without having to add a single line to
configure.in.  Many of the others can be expressed much shorter (while
still generating a much better test) with autoconf macros.


  // Marcus




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