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| author | Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@apestaart.org> | 2003-12-09 17:29:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@apestaart.org> | 2003-12-09 17:29:20 +0000 |
| commit | e8affca9f7a6d52546aed4a0849af48339f851c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 07928330b6c76da4c053ca4e3d016fe526fa2637 | |
| parent | 21f40a9a2f055cc2c531db5c4a58c7bb95cdfcbc (diff) | |
tweaks 'n' docs
Original commit message from CVS:
tweaks 'n' docs
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 37 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 2 |
2 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -1,2 +1,39 @@ This is a sandbox module to test if our build setup for external libraries (for example FFmpeg) is sane. + +What we are trying to achieve: + +satisfy: + patching of CVS checkout using our patch files placed in our CVS + + passing of + make + make distcheck + non-srcdir build (ie, mkdir build; cd build; ../configure; make) + +How it works: + +* configure checks whether or not it should update ffmpeg from CVS by looking + at the nano version number + - if it's 1, we're in cvs mode, and it should check it out + - if it's not 1, we're in prerel or rel mode, and the code should already + be on disk + FIXME: we could change this to really check out the source code if some + required files aren't there just in case someone checks out from CVS + but CVS is not at nano 1 + +* patching of the checked-out copy happens at + +Axioms under which we work: +- the dist tarball needs to include either + - the pristine ffmpeg checkout + our patches + a patch mechanism on make + or + - the ffmpeg checkout with patches already applied + +- configure/make is not allowed to touch files that already live in the source + tree; if they need to then they need to be copied first and cleaned + afterward + +- it would be very nice if, on update of either the Tag file or the patch set, + make would know exactly what to do with it. + diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 965b894..ded2f39 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ AM_MAINTAINER_MODE dnl when going to/from release please set the nano (fourth number) right ! dnl releases only do Wall, cvs and prerelease does Werror too AS_VERSION(gst-ffmpeg, GST_FFMPEG_VERSION, 0, 7, 2, 1, GST_CVS="no", GST_CVS="yes") +dnl we cheat here so we don't have to change the actual configure code bit +GST_PLUGINS_VERSION_NANO=$GST_FFMPEG_VERSION_NANO AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE,$VERSION) |