[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: accept unknown OSes by default

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:42:00AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:26:11AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:
> >> 
> >> > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:03:05AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> >> I'd like to change the default in configure from reject to accept when
> >> >> encountering an unknown operating system.  I believe it is the more sane
> >> >> default and the last OSes we added just needed empty entries...
> >> >
> >> > The disadvantage is that if one of the OS that need heavy hacks change
> >> > name it will fail in an obscure way instead of during configure, and the
> >> > same is true for a typo in --target.
> >> 
> >> The reason I made it reject unknown OSes was all the people passing
> >> crap as --target-os when building for OSX.
> >
> > Huh?  When was that?
> 
> Before I made it die instead.
> 
> >> I'd be OK to have a blank
> >> entry with a name like "none" for those willing to try their luck.
> >
> > What do you mean by a blank entry?
> 
> One that doesn't do anything.
> 
> > What about printing a warning instead of dying?
> 
> We used to do that, and people ignored it.

What about dying when we find an invalid entry in target_os then?

Diego