[XviD-devel] [RFC] Autoconf/automake/libtool tree
Christoph Lampert
xvid-devel@xvid.org
Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:57:12 +0200 (CEST)
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Edouard Gomez wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> As many people is asking for a centralized Makefile for all unix
> platforms and flavors, I'm beginning to turn the current Makefiles
> into a single autoconf/automake/libtool templates.
>
> I have a pair of questions about the way I must write them :
>
> - configure.in will detect all cpus types, check for nasm when needed
> This implies a change in xvid.c where X86 means "nasm is present". We
> should rename this preprocessor directive to HAVE_NASM or something
> more precise than just X86.
Please please check for the NASM-version, too. The most frequent errors
were due to non-up-to-date nasms.
Maybe even let it assemble 1 line of SSE2-code and switch that off
if nasm fails to success.
> NB: gentoo, marillat debian packager wil be happy with that (i hope :)
:-)
Yes, a gentoo package was the next thing I wanted to see. Do you have
experience with that? Then I wouldn't have to learn how to build
ebuild-scripts.
gruel
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