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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:01:35AM +0200, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Am Son, den 19.10.2003 schrieb Gabucino um 00:27:
> 
> > _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.
> 
> At the moment it still does not properly detect TV support and xvid but
> compiles the files and tries to link them in.
> 
> It's not possible to compile when srcdir != objdir because it's looking
> in the wrong directory for files.
> 
> While we are at it, the Makefiles themselves also have problems: DESTDIR
> support is broken and dependencies are not recognised and thus do not
> work.

Egger, STFU before your trolling gets you banned from this list again.

Rich