[MPlayer-users] Configure severely broken on IRIX

[Phil Rhodes]

I believe the previous discourse (below) may be a perfect example of the 
reason why open source software is so often considered to be effectively 
unusable.

P

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "The Wanderer" <inverseparadox at comcast.net>
To: "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests,bug reports" 
<mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Configure severely broken on IRIX


> On 05/06/2009 05:49 PM, Matthew Saunier wrote:
>
>> IRIX is a BSD UNIX, so it's sh is ksh88. 6.0 and up are compliant
>> with SVR4, UNIX95, and POSIX as of 1999. Autoconf generated configure
>> scripts have no problem working under these conditions, so if you're
>> going to have a hand-coded configure it must be more resilient.
>
> There's nothing wrong with that. I am not saying that your problem is
> invalid, or that it won't be fixed; I'm simply reporting the situation
> as I understand it.
>
>> Also, MIPSpro is THE compiler on IRIX. Apps that do compile under GCC
>> on IRIX tend to run much slower, and are harder to debug since ProDev
>> expects MIPSpro to be present.
>
> I'm not entirely sure what your point is; I didn't try to say anything
> to defend a position of "GCC or nothing"...
>
>> I've attached the output of your configure, do what you want, but if
>> one mainstream but slightly old commercial UNIX is having issues,
>> there will be other platforms that have issues as well.
>
> I don't see anything obviously wrong in that configure output, but
> then, configure's output isn't especially helpful in diagnosing
> problems; configure.log is more useful there.
>
> Regardless, I didn't ask for more information to be posted here; the
> primary point of my post was to say "you sent the patch to the wrong
> mailing list", and to warn you of some of the problems you might
> encounter in trying to get your patch accepted even once you resubmit it
> to the correct place.
>
> Also, please don't top-post, or you will get much less respect and
> people will be much less willing to deal with you around here.
>
> -- 
>       The Wanderer
>
> Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any
> side of it.
>
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