[vlc-devel] commit: contrib: Remove the TOOLS hack for darwin. (Pierre d'Herbemont )

[Rafaël Carré]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 12:28:25 +0100
Rafaël Carré <rafael.carre at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's true that removing a hack is improving things (I hadn't seen the
> cyclic dependancy when i committed this but i had noticed it after and
> jones' make seemed to do the right thing)
> 
> In this specific case though it's reintroducing the problem first
> reported by you: that concurrent make jobs can break the build if
> packages are built before their tool dependancy

Pierre, please revert the commit

> btw the tools needed to build contribs are "only" libtool and perhaps
> 'intl':
> 
> - (more recent than provided by the system) autoconf/automake are not
>   needed by contribs, only vlc
> - yasm is only needed by a few packages (x264/libvpx) so it can be
>   removed from distribution/*.mak and be an explicit dep
> 
> So that'll leave probably only libtool
> 
> Making extras/contrib a real package manager looks like a hard job to
> solve a simple task instead of just making sure that libtool is the
> first target to be built

I didn't go very far: gettext is needed both as a 3rd party library
(libintl) and as a build tool (autopoint), so without a better solution
just revert this commit

-- 
✍ Rafaël Carré ☺
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