[mythtv] configure script

[Nick Rosier]

On 19/10/05, Dave Oxley <dave at daveoxley.co.uk> wrote:
> I use gentoo svn ebuilds to build mythtv. Recently I have had to change
> configure before compiling to comment out an 'exit 1;' on line 845 as
> some options get passed to the configure script that are unknown. These
> are the options:
> Unknown option "--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu".
> Unknown option "--infodir=/usr/share/info".
> Unknown option "--datadir=/usr/share".
> Unknown option "--sysconfdir=/etc".
> Unknown option "--localstatedir=/var/lib".
> Unknown option "--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu".
> Unknown option "--enable-audio-alsa".
> Unknown option "--enable-audio-arts".
> Unknown option "--enable-vorbis".
>
> Can the configure script please be canged to make it a bit more tolerant?

Dave,

I use this patch to fix my configure-problems in Gentoo:

--- configure   2005-10-08 17:24:45.000000000 +0200
+++ configure.new       2005-10-09 00:59:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -839,9 +839,8 @@
   --disable-backend) backend="no"
   ;;
   *)
-  echo "Unknown option \"$opt\"."
+  echo "WARNING: Unknown option \"$opt\"."
   echo "See $0 --help for available options."
-  exit 1
   ;;
   esac
 done

Isaac doesn't seem to be a big fan of autoconf/automake and the other
GNU utils so you'll have to get by using this for now.

N.