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@@ -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. + |