Fwd: [Ffmpeg-devel] cross compiling ffmpeg

[Marc Hoffman]

>
> On Feb 5, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:39:24PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>>
>>> Diego Biurrun said:
>>>> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 01:28:45PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>      979:for opt do
>>>>>
>>>>> This could, and probably should, be merged with the main loop.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmmm...
>>>>
>>>>   FFMPEG_CONFIGURATION=" "
>>>>   for opt do
>>>>     FFMPEG_CONFIGURATION="$FFMPEG_CONFIGURATION""$opt "
>>>>   done
>>>>
>>>> Am I missing something here or can this be simplified to
>>>>
>>>>   FFMPEG_CONFIGURATION="$@"
>>>
>>> The same thing occurred to me, and I don't see why it would be  
>>> different.
>>
>> There is a difference: It should be considerably faster (not that it
>> will matter much, but ..).  Anyway, committed.
>
I guess I'm not sure how the above suggestion helps me.

> I'm still not sure how this gets around the uname -a stuff I  
> simplified the changes I'm asking for and I don't see why walking  
> the argument list twice looking for --target= is an issue.  Seems  
> fairly clean to me.
>
> I suggest we move the uname -a stuff to the same place we handle  
> the arch= so thats put together.  Then allow for targetos to be  
> overwritten before any actions are taken on the host os.  If  
> something like this is not handled then cross compilation where the  
> host os differs is just not possible.
>
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