[UFO Chicago] open gl dependencies...

[Paul Suda]

Thanks for the advice Nick. That makes alot more sense.

OK, I have a new configure file for anyone willing to try it. I pretty much
just implemented this suggested change and simplified things a little.

Download http://manufaxure.com/clockwork/ufo/configure_patch.tgz

Unzip it: tar -xzvf configure_patch.tgz

This will create configure and configure.in, move those to replace the
configure and the configure.in in the bottom level distribution directory.

Then run the configure script and see if it goes better.

I'll be fiddling with this some more over the weekend. If anyone tries
this, please let me know how it works.

Thanks for being the guinea pigs for this thing.

 - paul

On 2001.06.15 18:25:14 -0500 Nick Moffitt wrote:
> begin  Paul Suda quotation:
> 	Well, I'm a fair hand with autoconf, so here's my analysis:
> 
> Your section looks like this:
> dnl Make sure we have Open GL available.
> AC_CHECK_LIB(GL, glXCreateContext, , , "-lMesaGL")
> if test "x$ac_cv_lib_GL_glXCreateContext" != 'xyes'  
>   then
>     echo    
>     echo "Cannot find Open GL libraries."
>     echo    
>     exit 1  
> fi
> 
> 	The format of AC_CHECK_LIB is as follows:
> 
> AC_CHECK_LIB(library, function, [if-found], [if-not-found],
> [other-libraries])
> 
> 	This means that you probably want something like:
> 
> AC_CHECK_LIB(GL, glXCreateContext, , AC_MSG_ERROR(Cannot find OpenGL
> Libraries), MesaGL)
> 
> > No broadband access, need for comprehensive distribution that fits
> > on a reasonable number of CDs. I will be the first to admit that my
> > situation is less than ideal, but those are the requirements. I'm
> > sure that this is possible somehow with Debian, but I havn't found
> > it to fit these requirements as well as Suse. Not that I'm trying to
> > convince anyone that Suse is better or anything, this is just why I
> > use it.
> 
> 	Well, you can no doubt get CDs of "stable", but for "unstable"
> you really need to do a networked upgrade.  This is something you can
> run in the background on a running system, though.  You could run it
> while Web browsing, checking mail, or whatever.  Or you could kick off
> an upgrade, go to sleep, and finish the configuration stage when you
> wake up.  Lots of Debian developers have crappy net access as well,
> and they do regular upgrades to keep abreast of things (typical daily
> upgrade is about 40M).
> 
> 
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