[jds-review] Always use cdrecord to burn cds and dvds on Solaris

[Stephen Browne]

Ah I apologise for not making this clear in my review mail.

In both the bugster and bugzilla bugs I noted that this is definitely
not the best way to do this and that we would have to come up with a
better way to determine the DVD support in cdrecord.

I hoped to stir up some ideas via bugzilla or here so thanks.

I'm not sure about using AC_PATH_PROG for cdrecord-pro since I believe
some distros ship unofficial DVD support in cdrecord without changing
the binary name. e.g. Fedora Core 2.

Also on Solaris we have no cdrecord-pro binary/link.

I looked at using cdrecord -version output but thats not fool proof
either.

Any more ideas?

Stephen.

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 22:40 +0100, Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote:
> Stephen Browne wrote, On 02/04/07 13:37:
> 
>  > Solaris cdrecord-ProDVD DOES support dvd burning for all users ...
>  >
>  > +case "$host" in
>  > +*solaris*)
>  > +	AC_DEFINE(CDRECORD_SUPPORTS_DVD,1,Define to 1 if solaris)
>  > +	;;
>  > +esac
> 
>    If we want to submit the patch upstream, wouldn't it be better to
>    take the OS independent way?
> 
>    Solaris supports growisofs as Linux supports cdrecord-pro, so IMO it
>    would be better if we do not suppose a certain program set on each
>    platform.
> 
>    We could use AC_PATH_PROG to detect cdrecord-pro.
>