You can still disable it manually...
and well, you've had six months to fix your build system.

* Does nothing useful at the moment (only useless device probing)
* The purpose would be to make an access-demux and an access sub-module reusing part of the code
* Access to a webcam or an analog card without an encoder (bt878) would help the development

* configure.ac: enabled Obj-C exceptions in the OBJCFLAGS (they're currently used by AppleRemote only, but we should extend them to further classes)
* AppleRemote.*: added svn id and proper notes about the MIT-style and GPL dual licensing

 * JAVA_HOME is set
 * a java compiler compiles

* gnutls needs -lintl ldflag with newer versions. It's so nice if packages keep track of what libs they use....... hint hint

No need for a separate directory for 1 file

Break binary compatibility

- configure.ac: replaced 'av_add_i' with 'av_crc_init' when testing avutil as the former is no longer compiled in lib

Needs more check, as i've only tested it on altlinux

Several people use it and nobody complain it was broken.
Besides, some stuff seem not to work without it.

Automake 1.5 and 1.6 both suck, and 1.7 is almost four years old, so there is really no excuse for not using a decent version. Besides, there seems to some problems while building the loader with old Automake versions.

This simplifies the build system quite a lot, and reduce compilation
times when PIC is actually needed.

If you really mind the extra overhead of PIC, use:
./configure --enable-libtool --enable-static --disable-shared

* --enable-pic added in configure.ac
* bootstrap modified to use BUILD_PIC in place of BUILD_MOZILLA where needed