Re: mplayer (preview)

[Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net>]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 06:35:35AM -0700, Peter Hessler wrote:
> I don't have a problem with disabling oss, that never really worked on 
> my freebsd based box (I think it's a BSD vs Linux thing there)
> 
> I recommened that the port leave the cpu/cpu feature autodetection 
> alone, as it is fairly smart about that process.  Also, can you change 
> the i386 instances to a more non-intel friendly port.  IIRC, mplayer is 
> (wants to be) multi-platform.  (I have to spit a --target=ppc-openbsd 
> for mplayer's configure to understand my platform)

You don't understand.
We need binary packages.  
We need to be able to produce binary packages for various intel products,
on the same box.

So, autodetection MUST go, or be available at run-time. Not at compile
time.