On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Trent Piepho wrote: > > > That's it! You can compile and link mplex with one single g++ command! > > I don't see anywhere in that one line the building of the libmplex > shared libraries - that's what most of the build stuff is for.
Nothing uses the libmplex shared library, so that's not a problem. > > That's it, one command that fits on one line! For some reason autohell > > needs > > a ONE THOUSAND LINE Makefile to do this, and it doesn't even work! > > Makefile.am is 76 lines long and guess what? Works flawlessly on > everything from an obsolete BSD variant up thru OS/X on to several > different Linux distributions and a modern BSD variant or two. I've never found a system where it worked flawlessly, and from the traffic on this list, it seems I'm far from alone. I could write a normal makefile, that creates the (unnecessary) library, and it would be a less than 76 lines, and a lot less than one thousand lines. > > process so complex that people are told they need to switch distributions to > > build it, that's a sign autohell has gone seriously out of control. > > auto* is a bit of a mess in general but I can't call a 76 line > automake file "seriously out of control". It does have minimum > versions of the autohell tools required but that's not unusual. The minimum versions must be very bleeding edge, when redhat 9 and slackware 10 don't even have them. Besides that, mplex isn't a complex program, it doesn't need bleeding edge versions of autohell to compile. The build process is far more complex than it needs to be, and a lot of people are having trouble building it as a result. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
