[Ffmpeg-devel] The "Intermingled Mess" issue.

[Christian Iversen]

On Monday 19 September 2005 14:44, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:53:57PM +0200, Christian Iversen wrote:
> >>On Monday 19 September 2005 13:45, Luca Barbato wrote:
> >>>Christian Iversen wrote:
> >>>>Just my 5c, but wouldn't something like "make menuconfig" from the
> >>>> Linux kernel be the perfect way to configure ffmpeg? For instance,
> >>>> MP3_DECODER could depend on COMMON_MPEG_ROUTINES which could pull in
> >>>>SOME_IDCT_ROUTINE, etc. All this would happen automatically, and the
> >>>> user would have no problem configuring this library.
> >>>>
> >>>>This is just a loose idea, of course - any comments?
> >>>
> >>>kbuild is relatively easy to use, offers large benefits but is a bit
> >>>strange, but isn't as weird as autotools, scons and imake
> >>>
> >>>Given would be quite easy make the current configure output a .config
> >>>that kbuild can use (making the transition painless).
> >>
> >>Then what are the developers waiting for?
> >
> > Easy: your patch.
> >
> > Diego
>
> Something is not clear to me. Would kbuild be a *mandated* tool?

Well, I'm sure someone could write a small script to translate --enable-foo 
and --disable-bar into the corresponding HAS_XYZ defines. It's not like 
kbuild adds a dependency on an executable :)

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Regards,
Christian Iversen