[Scummvm-devel] Question to other ARM porters regarding ARM specific defines

[Andre Heider]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Johannes Schickel <lordhoto at scummvm.org> wrote:
> On 04/22/2011 11:07 AM, Andre Heider wrote:
>> Also: Can we please kill backends/platform/wince/Makefile and
>> use/maintain the configure path for WinCE please?
>
> Since the configure path works just fine (and is used on buildbot
> afaik), is there any reason you want the Makefile to be gone? There
> should be other ports having custom makefiles too, like the NDS port or
> the PSP port. I actually just checked the NDS makefile and it seems it
> also does not enable all the ARM assembly code, but at least it seems to
> pass the defines on its own, so that ports.mk change might not affect NDS.

Exactly, when there is only one way there can't be any differences.
Simple as that :)
When a maintainer prefers the custom Makefile, he probably doesn't
adapt the other part when making changes.
And when users want to build from source, configure should be the
preferred *and working* way.