[vlc-devel] [PATCH v2 13/13] extras: extract the contrib sources before building them

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le vendredi 10 juillet 2020, 14:08:40 EEST Steve Lhomme a écrit :
> On 2020-07-10 12:26, Alexandre Janniaux wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 11:30:38AM +0200, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> >> On 2020-07-10 11:06, Alexandre Janniaux wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> The point of Remi, that I agree on, is that you're not
> >>> supposed to follow contrib build lines, or you're supposed
> >> 
> >> First time I hear that logs should not be read. If that's the case we can
> >> redirect them to /dev/null
> > 
> > Read doesn't mean follow. You can easily spot which contrib failed
> > and just run the build of the very contrib that failed.
> 
> No I can't *just* run the build. I have nothing to compile for macOS or
> iOS. I need to be able to read the logs when there's something wrong.

And that hack patch won't fix anything in this respect. It just makes things 
slower and increases build system complexity.

-1

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Rémi Denis-Courmont