On 27/01/15 4:44 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Andreas Cadhalpun < > andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On 26.01.2015 23:11, Michael Niedermayer wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 07:08:42PM -0300, James Almer wrote: >>> >>>> On 26/01/15 7:04 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote: >>>> >>>>> reverted, breaks on BSDs >>>>> >>>>> ar: illegal option -- D >>>>> >>>> [...] >> >>> Maybe a configure check for "ranlib -D" could be added. >>>> >>> >>> yes >>> >> >> Attached patch checks if the help output contains the options. >> That should be sufficient. >> >> Best regards, >> Andreas >> > > > Checking help output with grep? Really? > Did you ever stop to check how all the other checks work in configure? > > Usually it tries to run the command and see if it fails, instead of doing > some arbitrary grep which may result in some other matches somewhere. > > - Hendrik
makeinfo, texi2html, podman and rsync all do the same to check for specific functionality. Not saying it's a good idea, just that there's a precedent. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
