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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 01:40:50PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:55:08AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> >> 
> >> > What about dying when we find an unknown entry passed explicitly with
> >> > --target-os, but accept unknown values that we autodetected?
> >> 
> >> Then we'd fail next time BSD is forked.
> >
> > It's impossible to account for all possibilities.  However, the last two
> > systems we added required no porting at all...
> 
> True, but most of them do require special settings.  A simple "unknown
> OS" message is much easier to deal with than a cryptic linker error.

OK, we'll keep it for now at least...

Diego