On Dec 4, 2006, at 11:07 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Since many people have non-nvidia cards, would it be possible to make the default Gem build not dependent on nvidia-specific stuff? Then there could be --enable-nvidia for people who want that.
no. as said before, i see (!) configure as a way to build a package optimized for the machine that configure is executed on. it is not a tool to make the most stripped down version.
if you want configure to create a most generic package, then you will have to pass arguments to it (e.g. "--disable-NV")
The autobuild machines most definitely do not have nvidia cards:
root@debian-stable-i386:~ > lspci
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage
Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c)
So these builds do not run on the machine they were built on.
.hc
When building packages (.deb, .tar.gz, whatever), its much more important that it run on all machines, than its very well
optimized on specific machines. Later, it would be possible to add a pd-gem- nvidia package, etc. etc.this is correct, but as said above, configure is not necessarily the tool to create packages that run on all machines.
mfg.asdr IOhannes
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