#74 closed defect (wontfix)
Configure script broken with coreutils v5.2.1+
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | important | Component: | core |
| Version: | HEAD | Severity: | critical |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Reproduced by developer: | no | Analyzed by developer: | no |
Description
Changes made in coreutils break many parses which make the configure script miss
crucial input such as CPU flags. For example, "head -1" is used in many places,
if you try that command, you'll see it is obsolete. This must be changed to
"head -n 1". Same for "tail -1".
.. and there are many more things in the configure script that missuse head.
Off topic but bugging me.. v4l is being checked for in /dev/video*. It should
also be checked in /dev/v4l/video* too. (udev)
Thank you for your time.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 20 years ago
| Status: | new → assigned |
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comment:2 by , 20 years ago
| Cc: | removed |
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comment:3 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
This has been discussed several times. We won't break compatibility with the
rest of the world just to satisfy the newest coreutils version.
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It is a known issue. I think it first came up with Gentoo. We've already
discussed it at mplayer-dev-eng and the conclusion was that it won't be fixed
due to compatibility with unices other than Linux. So I think this should be
left as WONTFIX, but I'll leave it for Alex.
As for the other issue you mentioned, either create a new Bugzilla entry or
(better) send a patch to mplayer-dev-eng.