[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: allow the gas-preprocessor to be called with an absolute path.

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Lars Hammarstrand <lars.hammarstrand <at> gmail.com> writes:

> This two line patch lets the configure tool address the 
> gas-preprocessor with an absolute path when included with 
> either the “--as=” or with a separate “--gas=” option.

Why is the new option "gas" necessary?
Isn't --as perfectly suited?

> The patch is backward compatible and will not
> break any current configuration setups.

That is not necessary imo, see ticket #1898.
(I don't think --as does anything useful atm.)

Carl Eugen