Removed the compile time option VFAT

6 files changed, 16 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 821e286c..4fcc6cf0 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2363,3 +2363,8 @@ Nan Feng <nfgx@21cn.com>
 Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
  for suggesting to not call FcFini() to avoid problems with older (broken) versions
  of fontconfig
+
+Michael Nork <mnork0@gmx.net>
+ for suggesting to remove the compile time option VFAT to allow users of precompiled
+ binary distributions to have full control over whether or not to use the --vfat
+ option at runtime
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index ab7cc37f..eacc36ab 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5781,6 +5781,9 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   they can correctly encode the strings.
 - No longer calling FcFini() to avoid problems with older (broken) versions of
   fontconfig (suggested by Edgar Toernig).
+- Removed the compile time option VFAT to allow users of precompiled binary
+  distributions to have full control over whether or not to use the --vfat option
+  at runtime (suggested by Michael Nork).
 
 2008-05-03: Version 1.6.0-2
 
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f61cb3bb..7294fabe 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Installation of the Video Disk Recorder
 ---------------------------------------
 
-Version 1.6
+Version 1.7
 -----------
 
 Compiling and running the program:
@@ -57,13 +57,8 @@ These options accept an optional path to the remote control device,
 the defaults of which can be set via the RCU_DEVICE and LIRC_DEVICE macros,
 respectively.
 
-If your video directory will be on a VFAT partition, add the compile
-time switch
-
-  VFAT=1
-
-to the 'make' command. Alternatively, you can call VDR with the command
-line option '--vfat'.
+If your video directory will be on a VFAT partition, you can call VDR with
+the command line option '--vfat'.
 
 When running, the 'vdr' program writes status information into the
 system log file, which is usually /var/log/messages (or /var/log/user.log,
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ebc415d6..c6efa373 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
 # how to reach the author.
 #
-# $Id: Makefile 2.1 2008/04/19 10:58:56 kls Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile 2.2 2008/05/03 10:13:43 kls Exp $
 
 .DELETE_ON_ERROR:
 
@@ -70,11 +70,6 @@ DEFINES += -DLOCDIR=\"$(LOCDIR)\"
 VDRVERSION = $(shell sed -ne '/define VDRVERSION/s/^.*"\(.*\)".*$$/\1/p' config.h)
 APIVERSION = $(shell sed -ne '/define APIVERSION/s/^.*"\(.*\)".*$$/\1/p' config.h)
 
-ifdef VFAT
-# for people who want their video directory on a VFAT partition
-DEFINES += -DVFAT
-endif
-
 all: vdr i18n
 
 # Implicit rules:
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index e0172ed7..5954662b 100644
--- a/recording.c
+++ b/recording.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.c 2.1 2008/05/01 15:33:39 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 2.2 2008/05/03 10:16:10 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
 /* This was the original code, which works fine in a Linux only environment.
    Unfortunately, because of Windows and its brain dead file system, we have
    to use a more complicated approach, in order to allow users who have enabled
-   the VFAT compile time option to see their recordings even if they forget to
-   enable VFAT when compiling a new version of VDR... Gee, do I hate Windows.
+   the --vfat command line option to see their recordings even if they forget to
+   enable --vfat when restarting VDR... Gee, do I hate Windows.
    (kls 2002-07-27)
 #define DATAFORMAT   "%4d-%02d-%02d.%02d:%02d.%02d.%02d" RECEXT
 #define NAMEFORMAT   "%s/%s/" DATAFORMAT
diff --git a/vdr.c b/vdr.c
index 5ea62d69..6d74845a 100644
--- a/vdr.c
+++ b/vdr.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  *
  * The project's page is at http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr
  *
- * $Id: vdr.c 1.313 2008/03/14 13:22:39 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: vdr.c 2.1 2008/05/03 10:16:41 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include <getopt.h>
@@ -210,9 +210,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 #elif defined(REMOTE_RCU)
   RcuDevice = RCU_DEVICE;
 #endif
-#if defined(VFAT)
-  VfatFileSystem = true;
-#endif
 #if defined(VDR_USER)
   VdrUser = VDR_USER;
 #endif