[vlc-devel] [PATCH 2/3] contrib: Put the contrib in $host/$distro instead of just $host. This allows building for a same target with different distro type. (eg iPhone Simulator)

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 09:41:21 +0200, Jean-Paul Saman <jpsaman at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Pierre d'Herbemont <pdherbemont at free.fr>
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:51:09PM +0200, Pierre d'Herbemont wrote :
>>>> -      CONTRIB_DIR="${topdir}/extras/contrib/hosts/${host}"
>>>> +    
>  CONTRIB_DIR="${topdir}/extras/contrib/hosts/${host}/default_distro"
>>> I am not at ease with "default_distro", I have to say.
>>
>> Do you have a suggestion to throw in? This is referring to the $distro
>> in bootstrap, value that refers itself to Distribution/blah.mk.
> 
> Maybe the contribs compile and build result should be done in a
> builddir instead of in the source tree. You then can have a contrib
> build for any combination you need. Eg:

Indeed. That's exactly what I said earlier too.

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