[GRASS5] configure.in Wants testers...

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:05:19PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 05:27:58PM +0000, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 05:31:42PM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > > I am using current CVS version of configure.in rev 1.16.
> > > My problem ist that there is no way to disable opengl.

> > > There also should be an option to disable the SGI mesa widgets and
> > > the corrersponding commands, because not everybody has the mesa build by
> > > themself.
> >
> > Well, at least SuSe7.0-Mesa contains the SGI mesa widgets :-)
> > I can't remember that I had to compile myself. 

	Hu, Suse is always scary.

> Well there's two only partially related things here.  First, I can add a
> --disable-opengl flag.  However, the build process will have to know how
> to handle this (with say a USE_OPENGL environment variable).  I think
> only the top-level Makefile can do anything about this.  This will have
> to prevent NVIZ2.2 and the showdpsf programs from compiling.

Sounds reasonable.

> The Mesa widgets are only needed by the showdspf stuff I think, so
> there'd have to be a variable for that as well.  However, the showdspf
> stuff is not currently compiled by default, so this should be no big
> issue.  It will simply fail to link if the user tries to compile it.

Well, but ./configure shall not stop in that circumstances and report an
error, but just note that there are no SGI mesa widgets around.
And then it should not try to comple itself, because this would be
incorrectly indicated as an error.

We also need another option for the configure to stop when the
compilation fails. This should be the _default_.
The current behaviour to just continue and log the error might
be convenient for some, but is it very surprising for other people and
non-standard. If a build fails somewhere, it must stop, 
unless a special flags is given to override this behavious.

	Bernhard

-- 
Professional Service around Free Software                (intevation.net)  
The FreeGIS Project				            (freegis.org)
Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure            (ffii.org)
FSF Europe					      (www.fsfeurope.org)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 236 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/attachments/20001128/f6ea60c0/attachment.bin