[vlc-devel] [RFC, PATCH] configure: Do not stop configure if component is not found.

[Alexey Sokolov]

01.12.2011 18:42, Rémi Denis-Courmont пишет:
> On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:21:43 +0200, Georgi Chorbadzhiyski <gf at unixsol.org>
> wrote:
>>> How so? You might not want any A/52 decoding, no?
> 
> A/52 is one of the most common audio codec, perhaps the most common after
> MPEG-2 Audio.
> 
>> My point exactly, configure should not require --disable-xxxxx just to
>> silence an error that if xxxx is not found. If it is not found just mark
>> it so and go on.
> 
> And who will read the warning among the flood of messages?
> 
Just show the table in the end of configure with the list of
enabled/disabled codecs.

>> Otherwise it is cat and mouse game. ./configure ... wait....aaaa an
> error,
>> whats the disable option (grep for it)...run configure --disable-abc ...
>> wait....loop if an error is found.
>>
>> And lets not forget that configure is huge and it is taking lots of time
>> to run.
> 
> It's much less time than tracking why a VLC build does not work. And it's
> also taking less time for us to support people who screwed their builds due
> to missing dependencies.
> 
> You're not the one doing the build support on the forum.
> 
Probably they can paste the same table from the end of configure,
besides ./configure cmdline?


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Best regards,
Alexey "DarthGandalf" Sokolov