[gst-devel] Re: [gst-cvs] CVS: gstreamer acinclude.m4,1.20,1.21

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi taaz,

> If you plan to continue down this path may I make a suggestion?  The way
> OMS handled this was a bit cleaner IMHO.  We had a m4/ dir under the
> root that we'd copy all the required m4s into.  Then in autogen.sh we'd
> cat them all together.   Makes it MUCH easier to update individual
> files.  Can even write a script in autogen.sh to compare dates with the
> real files and warn user or copy files or whatever.

Yeah, totally ;) I've been wanting to do this all weekend but wasn't sure
if this was a good idea or not.  I figured that if it was, it would have
been implemented before I knew gstreamer ;) So yeah, I'm going to do this
real soon (ie as soon as I get a good enough handle on the whole build
system).  Wrobell and I discussed this too, so we're going to do it anyway
in his branch and then merge back if that's ok with all of you.

> I'd go with the m4/ dir thing if you think developers can't handle
> installing a few -dev packages.

Well... each time I put in an AM_PATH_* in configure.ac without the
relevant stuff in aclocal.m4 I had people complain on irc, so ... I guess
with the current list of dependencies we really can't ask everyone to have
everything.  I mean, I'm still installing packages (and looking for some -
xaudio for example) to satisfy everything ...

Thomas


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