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autoconf code detection wrong

If you look at the code analysis for both FFmpeg and MPlayer you will see some code that is claimed to be autoconf:

https://www.ohloh.net/p/mplayer/analyses/latest
https://www.ohloh.net/p/ffmpeg/analyses/latest

I can assure you that neither project contains not even a single line of autoconf code, nor will they in the future :)

best regards, Diego

Diego Biurrun almost 14 years ago
 

Yes, this is a bug in our source code detector.

If we find a file called configure, and it parses as a shell script, we consider it to be Autoconf.

A true Autoconf file would probably contain somewhere within it the phrase generated by GNU Autoconf or something similar. I can open a ticket for this bug.

Thanks,
Robin

Robin Luckey almost 14 years ago
 
 

AFAIK autoconf configure scripts are always accompanied by the configure.ac/configure.in files from which they were generated.

This is another reasonably robust heuristics that you can use to identify configure scripts generated by autoconf.

Diego Biurrun almost 14 years ago