[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] Simplify V4L2 configure checks

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le mardi 6 septembre 2011 18:46:46 Alexis Ballier, vous avez écrit :
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:25:34 +0300
> 
> "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> > Le mardi 6 septembre 2011 17:58:49 Alexis Ballier, vous avez écrit :
> > > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 00:14:00 +0300
> > > 
> > > "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> > > > There is no point for v4l2 which depends on nothing other than
> > > > libc headers.
> > > 
> > > libv4l was not in the libc and was a little bit more than a header
> > > last time i checked
> > > 
> > > > If you want to argue about v4l2, then why do you not argue
> > > > about every other plug-in that is always enabled?
> > > 
> > > I could, but in these cases it's probably a bigger change than
> > > replacing a PKG_CHECK_MODULES by a PKG_WITH_MODULES...
> > 
> > So? We have had plenty of cases of dependencies that cannot be
> > disabled individually, some of them for years:
> > - xcb-composite for xcb_screen,
> > - xproto and xcb-keysyms for xcb_window and globalhotkeys,
> > - xcb-randr for panoramix,
> > - xcb-xv for xcb_xv,
> > - xcb-shm for xcb_xv and xcb,
> 
> --disable-xcb?

That disables xcb. You have no individual control.

> --disable-libtar?
> 
> > - valgrind?
> 
> --disable-debug?

Oh yeah great! Lets disable debug symbols to avoid valgrind! Come on...

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