From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30018 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756643Ab0BXMnk (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:43:40 -0500 Message-ID: <4B851F26.4060907@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:44:22 +0100 From: Hans de Goede MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brandon Philips CC: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Hans Verkuil , Linux Media Mailing List , Douglas Landgraf Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git tree repositories & libv4l References: <4B55445A.10300@infradead.org> <4B57B6E4.2070500@infradead.org> <20100121024605.GK4015@jenkins.home.ifup.org> <201001210834.28112.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <4B5B30E4.7030909@redhat.com> <20100222225426.GC4013@jenkins.home.ifup.org> <4B839687.4090205@redhat.com> <4B83F635.9030501@infradead.org> <4B83F97A.60103@redhat.com> <20100224060545.GA20308@jenkins.stayonline.net> In-Reply-To: <20100224060545.GA20308@jenkins.stayonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On 02/24/2010 07:05 AM, Brandon Philips wrote: > On 16:51 Tue 23 Feb 2010, Hans de Goede wrote: >> On 02/23/2010 04:37 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >>> Hans de Goede wrote: >>> >>>> Ok, so this will give me a local tree, how do I get this onto >>>> linuxtv.org ? >>> >>> I added it. In thesis, it is open for commit to you, me, hverkuil >>> and dougsland. >>> >> >> I see good, thanks! Can someone (Douglas ?) with better hg / git >> powers then me please somehow import all the libv4l changes from: >> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~hgoede/libv4l >> >> Once that is done I'll retire my own tree, and move all my userspace >> work to the git tree. >> >> For starters I plan to create / modify Makefiles so that everything >> will build out of the box, and has proper make install targets which >> can be used by distro's >> >> So: >> -proper honoring of CFLAGS >> -work with standard (and possibly somewhat older kernel headers) >> -honor DESTDIR, PREFIX and LIBDIR when doing make install > > Do you still want me to convert to autoconf? I was still planning on > doing that. We discussed it a month ago when this conversation > started. > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/15009 > I know that was mentioned then, but re-thinking this, as this will all be Linux specific, I don't really see a need for autotools atm, and as I personally find autotools a bit overcomplicated. I would like to try just using plain Makefiles for now. If it turns out this does not work we can always switch to autotools later. Thanks for the offer though! Regards, Hans