[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commit: r7412 - in trunk/mythtv by ijr

[Preston Crow]

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:48 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Monday 10 October 2005 12:16 pm, Neale Swinnerton wrote:
> > > Commenting out that line with my Gentoo ebuild produces the following:
> >
> > AFAIK, Isaac doesn't want the complexity of automake/autoconf, which is of
> > course his call. The script could be updated to support all the 'standard'
> > autoconf/automake options, but it's not really worth it, since the rest of
> > the build would need updating to do it properly and there's no real call
> > for it. For me, making them warnings is a happy compromise. I've just
> > added the patch to my build and posted it here if other people want to use
> > it.
> 
> You could just not send it unsupported options.

Yes, that would be nice, but getting that to work in Gentoo is
non-trivial.  It would be easier to have the ebuild script patch the
configure script to allow invalid options.

--PC