On 09-Jun-99 Holger Waechtler wrote:
> you should not try to compile the ggi stuff, if no ggi was found.
That's what the autoconf script actually does.
Unfortunately some of Jon's GGI fixes broke it yesterday :(
but it's fixed now.
> A switch --disable-ggi would be nice, even if a ggi library was detected
> (since ggi is not yet really ready, there might be some broken versions
> out there).
You can disable it using --without-ggi
> In the next release I would recommend it, if someone would need to enable
> ggi explicitly.
I don't think so. It wouldn't do any harm even if a broken ggi
support is compiled in.
> The same with glide. (Some people have the glide lib installed, but no
> 3dfx card.)
That's very unlikely.
> A way could be here to run /usr/local/glide/bin/test3dfx &
> test, if a it found a card.
This would probably take too much time. Please use --without-glide instead.
(and --without-svga for SVGAlib, --without-x doesn't make sense since
Mesa depends on X11 (so far...))
> Why do you check for gethostbyname and other networking stuff ??
That's necessary for X11 (it's part of the X11 checks).
Thomas Tanner -----------------------------------------
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