[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: use ar and ranlib in deterministic mode

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Andreas Cadhalpun <
andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 26.01.2015 23:11, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 07:08:42PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
>>
>>> On 26/01/15 7:04 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>
>>>> reverted, breaks on BSDs
>>>>
>>>> ar: illegal option -- D
>>>>
>>> [...]
>
>> Maybe a configure check for "ranlib -D" could be added.
>>>
>>
>> yes
>>
>
> Attached patch checks if the help output contains the options.
> That should be sufficient.
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas
>


Checking help output with grep? Really?
Did you ever stop to check how all the other checks work in configure?

Usually it tries to run the command and see if it fails, instead of doing
some arbitrary grep which may result in some other matches somewhere.

- Hendrik