On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Yes, it would be nice to have [pix_video] work with the Kinect, but right now the plugins stuff is not fully done yet, and people want to work with the Kinect now. I tried to get stuff building using the Gem build system, but I couldn't get it going, so I just made a Makefile which seems to work. For one, it seems to depend on automake-1.11, which is not always easily available. I see no reason why the Gem plugins can work for automake-1.9 or even earlier, its not a complicated build.
I don't understand the point of the plugins stuff. It seems to be just 42 more occasions of running 42 $x/configure scripts doing 42 tests each about whether printf really exists, whether the build system is "sane" (what does that mean ?), the Fortran-77 compiler is installed (what for ?) and redoing it again from scratch because the master Makefile doesn't trust the user (or the filesystem) that the master ./configure has really been running $x/configure in all subdirectories already.
On my system it takes 30 minutes to run a Gem build, and I heard that there was a funny option that I had never heard of, that could cache some of the "configuration" results, but I forgot what it is, and I don't think many people know this option at all.
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