[vlc-devel] [REVIEW REQUEST] vlc: new contrib build system

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lundi 27 juin 2011 21:23:26 Jean-Baptiste Kempf, vous avez écrit :
> >  * always building from source tarball:
> >    - easier GPL compliance
> >    - easier offline/firewalled builds
> 
> Meaning: we need to do tarballs of people who don't do tarballs?

In case the package comes from a VCS, the build rules will create a tarball 
out of the VCS export. Then the tarball is unpacked and compiled as "normal".

This is slightly slower, but far simpler w.r.t. publishing the source and 
compiling offline.

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