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Autor: Dan Dennedy
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A: Minimalistic plugin API for video effects
Assumpte: Re: [Frei0r] autoconf build problems and switch to cmake only
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Dan Dennedy <dan@???> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
>>
>> re all
>>
>> while testing Janne's new filters I was also trying to add them into the
>> autoconf build, but while doing so I'm realizing that our autoconf
>> setup does not work to add filters and in fact skips already many of
>> them.


I know I OK'ed this, but the autotools build is actually very easy to
maintain; it's all in src/Makefile.am. See my recent commit. And it
is probably skipping plugins for you because you did not run
autoreconf in some time. I have been trying to keep the autoconf build
up-to-date. It is current AFAIK.

>>
>> I was trying to figure out where is the problem, but so far couldn't.
>>
>> The autoconf build setup is dated back to 2007 when Richard Spindler
>> wrote it (author or open movie editor), then since he went silent in
>> frei0r I've tried to maintain it with some success.
>>
>> Meanwhile the new cmake build was contributed in 2010 by Joshua M. Doe
>> and seems to work very well on all platforms, plus has a clear and
>> self-contained way to add new filters to the frei0r tree, reasons why
>> all new filters contributed seem to prefer that.
>>
>> Hence my proposal is now to drop the autoconf build as a whole, stop
>> bothering maintaining two build systems and just switch to cmake. AFAIK
>> most GNU/Linux distributions have already a way to package cmake builds.
>
> OK with me
>
> --
> +-DRD-+