[mplayer-dev-eng] mpalyer sucks! (not: autoconf suxx!)

Dirk noisyb at gmx.net
Sat Oct 18 12:29:10 CEST 2003


Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:

>>--[Alex Beregszaszi]--<alex at fsn.hu>
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>>>Actually no. If you'd have used autoconf and automake, you wouldn't
>>>need to make distclean, it would make sure the necessary files (i.e.
>>>all) would be recompiled on its own. Which showns that mplayer's build
>>>system is just a poor re-invention of the wheel if it has such
>>>trouble.
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>>If autoconf and automake is the wheel, we would still trying to make it
>>rounded..
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>autoconf and automake may not be hyper-modern racing tires made of super gum,
>but they're more than just round. Which is more than mplayer's system, which
>is like dragging stuff over the floor behind you...
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>Oh, and none of the replies to my posting did contain any arguments... just
>the usual lame rant.
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you prefer autoconf?

well then why dont you just go ahead and...

cd main && rm configure && autoscan && mv configure.scan configure.in &&
autoheader

instead of whining around here? I'm sure that autoconf will proove as
magic as you expect it to be ;-)

Dirk




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