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

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > _We_ won't read autotools documentations.
> > Instead we wrote our own system, and it worked well in the past 2.5 years,
> > so there's 0 reason to change.
> 
> This is definitely wrong. It breaks and bursts on all ends even for
> those of you using conventional i386 platforms. It is also obvious that
> the author did not design the system but ripped it off from some
> configure script created by autoconfig.

wrong
v1 may be ripped off but v2 was build from scratch, step by step.
maybe ideas was used from other scripts, but afaik not copypaste.

> At the moment it still does not properly detect TV support and xvid but
> compiles the files and tries to link them in.

RTFM bugreports.html
btw i wonder how to detect TV support at all...
i mean it doesnt need external libs, just the pure kernel header files, what
everyone should have who compiles from source.

> It's not possible to compile when srcdir != objdir because it's looking
> in the wrong directory for files.

as we didnt need this feature of autoshitools.
if you want it, go and implement.

> While we are at it, the Makefiles themselves also have problems: DESTDIR
> support is broken

RTFM bugreports.html

> and dependencies are not recognised and thus do not

make dep


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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