[FFmpeg-cvslog] r10233 - trunk/configure

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:08:36PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> "Guillaume POIRIER" <poirierg at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 8/27/07, M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
> >> "Guillaume POIRIER" <poirierg at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > On 8/26/07, mru <subversion at mplayerhq.hu> wrote:
> >> >> Author: mru
> >> >> Date: Sun Aug 26 11:11:22 2007
> >> >> New Revision: 10233
> >> >>
> >> >> Log:
> >> >> use POSIX "strings -a" rather than "strings -"
> >> >
> >> > I'm sorry, but this breaks PPC/OSX support again :-(
> >>
> >> How does it break?
> >
> > It breaks in the same way as previously (when the line read "strings
> > $TMPO ...").
> > I didn't actually check how the configure test behaved, I only noticed
> > that H264 was broken again since you replaced "strings -" by "strings
> > -a".
> 
> Very strange.  In GNU strings - and -a are equivalent.  POSIX only
> mentions -a, so I assumed this would work everywhere.  Apparently the
> macos version is more twisted than I thought (which I should have
> learned to expect by now).

is there a reason why we dont just run grep on the binary directly?

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