Re: [Audacity-devel] Mac and source re-uploaded

[Benjamin D. <bd...@ub...>]

Am Mittwoch, den 30.03.2011, 19:09 -0500 schrieb Leland: 
> On 3/30/11 2:30 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Now only two patches remain: ffmpeg-configure-v2.patch (which will be
> > important if the FFmpeg 0.6.1 patch is applied)
> 
> Bummer.  I thought I'd applied that one.  Will do it during next round.
> 
> > and the autoconf warning
> > fix patch (refreshed autoconf-warning-v4.patch attached).
> >
> I kind of left this one to last on purpose.  Do ya think it's really 
> worth making that much of a change to get rid of a couple of warnings? 
> Warnings that only developers and packagers would see?  Even if users 
> build Audacity themselves, they typically will not be regenerating 
> configure and if they do, they're probably a bit more advanced and can 
> choose to ignore the warning.

It's more about the not working recursive help than about fixing a
warning. At least the half can be fixed easily (see attached patch).

> And recursive help really isn't needed in this situation since the 
> "best" config options have already been selected for the local 
> libraries.  If the builder is advanced enough to know they want special 
> options, then they can just run the specific libraries configure script 
> directly to get the supported options.

Even advanced builder do not remember all configure flags and look at
the help.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer