[x264-devel] [PATCH] Updated configure to detect MIPS platform and set flags.

[Henrik Gramner]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Rishikesh More
<Rishikesh.More at imgtec.com> wrote:
> MIPS related changes in config.sub are already in place at <config-patches at gnu.org>.
> The timestamp on config.sub, which is being used in x264, is from 2012.
> If you would sync with latest copy you would find all the MIPS related changes in it.
> I've tested X264 code for correctness with both Mips32 and Mips64.
>
> Regards,
> Rishi

GNU changed the license of config.(guess|sub) to GPLv3 in 2012 which
is why we haven't updated them past that.

It's my understanding that you cannot distribute GPLv2 software built
using a GPLv3 build script.