gripes -- Re: [Bf-committers] New render options

John K. Walton bf-committers@blender.org
Sun, 20 Jul 2003 07:55:05 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Gregor [iso-8859-1] M=FCckl wrote:

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> Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2003 10:48 schrieb Ton Roosendaal:
> > > P.S. This SDL stuff is a headache too
> > > -- I think platform maintainers should
> > > choose their own compile/link flags rather
> > > than depending on an sdl-config program
> > > that may or may not be in their path
> > > (or even installed for that matter).
> >
> > My idea too! :)
> >
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> Sorry to tell you, but this is almost impossible to do. SDL itself can cr=
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> right is to use sdl-config. Dropping sdl-config will only get you into de=
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> trouble. *Never* do this. It's a lot better and safer to add a=20
> - --witih-sdl-config=3D{path} option to configure.


please give specifric example of why this doesn't work, since
we've had it working fine. also, SDL comes precompiled from
SGI for irix.
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> Regards,
> Gregor
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