[XviD-devel] 0.9.2 released and important fixes for MPEG4
compliance in other branches.
Edouard Gomez
ed.gomez at free.fr
Tue Jul 29 01:53:40 CEST 2003
Edouard Gomez (ed.gomez at free.fr) wrote:
> Well, patches are welcome, if you don't make use of automake which is
> really what i wanted to avoid because it generates Makefiles that are
> not not compatible with the standard make in BSD systems or the make in
> solaris/SunOS.
Just a Nota Bene because i forgot to mention what prevented me from
using automake and then libtool (11 months ago).
The problem is already expressed there:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2002-08/msg00129.html
So i tried to fool the system and renamed all files to .s so automake
would understand them, and call libtool... BUT ...
libtool did not support nasm in any way, i had to use a sh wrapper to
catch the call to gcc and remove PIC stuff and other annoying flags
(because libtool was assembling the files the gcc way). I did hate this
nasty hack that moreover was working in some cases and not in others.
That's more or less the rationale behind the current build system. I
tried to rely on the strict minimum, ie autoconf (but i was just about
giving a try at direct sh scripting, a bit like mplayer or ffmpeg does,
but i did not want to lose much time on that).
So if things have been improved in automake/libtool, and you provide me
a patch.... geez i would be happy to give it a try. And of course if
xvid _builds_ (symlink is not really part of the building process but
it's part of the install process) on at least the same number of targets
using pmake, gmake or the nasty solaris make... it will be merged.
--
Edouard Gomez
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