[vdr] Re: new DVD plugin version released

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Andreas Schultz wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > Andreas Schultz wrote:
> >
> >>Lauri Tischler wrote:
> >>
> >>>Andreas Schultz wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>I have put out a new version of the DVD plugin for the new VDR versions. This
> >>>>version requires at least vdr-1.1.9, but subtitles will only work correctly
> >>>>with vdr-1.1.11 and newer.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>NEWSTRUCT defined on VDR Makefile is not inherited to plugin Makefile.
> >>>Now you need to redefine NEWSTRUCT=1 on dvd plugin Makefile.
> >>
> >>plugin Makefile's do not inherit anything from vdr's Makefile. But you
> >>should not need to edit any Makefile for the 'NEWSTRUCT=1' define. Just
> >>compile vdr and the plugins like this 'make NEWSTRUCT=1 REMOTE=LIRC all
> >>plugins'.
> >>
> >>@Klaus: what about switching to automake and autoconf ... ?
> >
> >
> > Well, frankly I hate them. They do tons of things I have no idea of what
> > exactly they do and tend to create unreadable Makefiles.
> 
> thats the reason you have automake, so you don't have to be bothered
> with the unreadable Makefiles. I have found that autoconf/make can be a
> great help for large projects and also when you need to autodetect
> thinks before compilation.
> For vdr itself it would be helpfull to detect some thinks, like DVBDIR
> and NEWSTRUCT automagicaly, for the DVD plugin thinks like library
> locations, theyre include paths and DJBFFT would be helpfull.....
> Actually, it should be possible to write a relly small configure script
> to figure out those things without the autoconf/make overhead and
> Makefile complexity.

Well. if somebody wants to make such a file (and it really is just one single file ;-)
I wouldn't mind adding it to the VDR distribution. However, I personally would still
only use and maintain the Makefile.

Klaus
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