[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] use gcc instead of calling ld directly

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:23:11PM +0100, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Am Fre, 2003-03-21 um 21.24 schrieb Diego Biurrun:
> 
> > The attitude towards autoconf has been somewhat hostile in the past
> > ;-)
> 
> For whatever reason. Actually the configure script was generated by
> autoconf way bay in time (at least it looks exactly like it was). The
> point of autoconf is to ease system detection while this configure
> script sort of complicates it.

No.

> > Nobody is going to take the trouble to rewrite configure.  You might
> > try if you want to, but in that case I would do a small part and put
> > the results up for discussion before tackling the whole thing.
> 
> I'm sure someone would do it if there'd be a consensus that it's the
> right thing to do(rm).

The consensus is that it's the wrong thing to do and that anything
autoconf-based will be immediately rejected with no questions asked.

This discussion has been argued to death many times before. Please
drop it and do not bring it up again. RTFa (archives) if you care.

Rich