[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH V5 1/2] configure: sort decoder/encoder/filter/... names in alphabet order

[Alexander Strasser]

Hi Carl Eugen!

On 2019-05-01 22:57 +0200, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> 2019-04-28 3:18 GMT+02:00, Alexander Strasser <eclipse7 at gmx.net>:
>
> > What do you think about using awk instead of shell?
>
> Do we only use awk for --enable-random and the dependency
> files so far? Does configure also work without awk now and
> would this change?

No, it wouldn't as I have written when initially proposing
to use it here.

We unconditionally use awk for generating and writing the
primary configure outputs: the config files.

Upon your question I looked it up exactly; the routine was
rewritten by Mans to use awk near the end of 2012 in this
commit:

  f454e879238ce317c6d905d187e7608c461a7087


  Alexander