On Monday 21 April 2008 17:02:27 Mark Glines wrote: > Another note, slightly off-topic: does OpenGL actually need a > configuration/detection step at all? I notice neither SDL or > PostgreSQL seem to have one. Maybe they're detecting everything at > runtime, or maybe their generated stuff runs from make instead of from > configure? On the other hand, the config system is modularized into > nice neat little steps, which makes them terribly easy to write and > maintain, so it seems a shame not to use them. :)
PostgreSQL and SDL use NCI to link against existing shared libraries. As I understand the OpenGL code (and the crypto code), they actually build C code, which is a little more involved. -- c
