[FFmpeg-cvslog] r10233 - trunk/configure

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> 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?

When I think about it, no.  It was Reimar (IIRC) who suggested
it, and I didn't think further about it.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
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