[vlc-devel] [RFC] configure.ac patches

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le mardi 2 février 2010 22:55:33 Daniel Mierswa, vous avez écrit :
> Also created a ticket at https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3283
> Description copied:
> I'm in the middle of refactoring the m4/autoconf code we currently use to
> make it way more readable for packagers and to hopefully gain some speed if
> it works out. :) The description for each patch should probably be
> sufficient to tell you what it does. Please let me know what you think of
> the patches so I can continue to work on more autoconf foo.
> The patch comes splitted into two, to match the ones at the ticket.

Concerning the first series... I merged all but the VLC_FEATURE stuff and the 
maintainer mode change.

I believe the maintainer mode cleanup would require automake 1.11. VLC 
currently requires version 1.9. We *could* switch to automake 1.11. We would 
get colored tests and LZMA compression also. But this requires:
 - setting the proper dependency in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS,
 - agreeing with the main developers (not just me).

As for the VLC_FEATURE stuff, I don't really understand the concept. As far as 
I remember the autoconf documentation, enable_* variables are supposed to be 
accessed directly, no? There also seems to be a problem with some default 
values. The patchset unexpectedly disabled VLM in my VLC tree.

Thanks!

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