[Bf-committers] Re: [Bf-blender-cvs] CVS commit: blender/source/blender/blenkernel/intern image.c

[Alexander Ewering]

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Chris Want wrote:

> Alexander Ewering wrote:
>>>  Log:
>>>  Some more duct tape to make sure that blender[player] still builds
>>>  when compiled without OpenEXR.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for supporting those living in stone age ;)
>
> Be careful though -- this really is duct tape!
>
> If you check the diff, when compiling without
> OpenEXR this commit just excludes an OpenEXR call
> in the function image_create_multilayer(). This will
> get things compiling, but it may not be safe/desirable
> behavior.

Yes, I checked the diff, and it looked suspicious.

Anyway, I guess for the future, OpenEXR should just become a prerequisite to
building Blender - now that its functionality is so tightly integrated and
used all over the place, it probably doesn't make any more sense to offer
options to build without it. Even *I* agree on that :)

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