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

[Preston Crow]

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:56 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Monday 10 October 2005 12:48 pm, Preston Crow wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> That's utterly broken.

It would be nice if the current scripts would silently ignore
"--enable-XXX" if XXX is by default enabled when it will accept
"--disable-XXX" as an option.  Fixing that is a big ugly.

But as to the other options, I did some research, and I see how to fix
it the right way.  Gentoo likes to use "econf" which runs ./configure
with some pre-defined defaults.  Switching to running ./configure
directly solves the problem.

I'll update the ebuilds that I distribute shortly.

--PC