[Buildroot] [PATCHv2 1/1] vlc: New package

Ismael Luceno ismael.luceno at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 19:15:15 UTC 2012


On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:08:27 +0100
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
<...>
>  Is armv7-a the only architecture with Neon support?

Good question... also, I think nVidia ones don't have :/.

>  More generally, maybe we should have an architecture symbol for neon
> on which this type of package can rely.

+1

<...>
>  Why do the normal configure commands not work?
> 
>  The revision.txt could be done in POST_PATCH_HOOKS.
> 
>  The bootstrap can be done in PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS.  However, isn't vlc
> distributed with a configure script?  So the bootstrap will never be
> executed, right?

It's for scm versions, which I use from time to time. It doesn't hurt
to have, that's why I left it.

<...>
>  The configure arguments can be added to VLC_CONF_OPTS.
> 
>  The vasprintf can be done in POST_CONFIGURE_HOOKS.
> 
>  For all of these, there should be a comment explaining why it is
> needed. This will help later for version bumpers to remove it again,
> when it is no longer needed because of upstream updates.


Thanks for the comments! :D. I'll submit another version soon.
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