hi, may I join you in that discussion? I understand now that the Gem package in the pd-extended is built for nvidia support and does not run without a nvidia card. correct? But what I want to know is, (I don't know so much about configure scripting..) when I build my own Gem and have NO nvidia card, will I have to type --disable-NV? that would not make sense to me... I would like to compile my Gem later today. so thnx for answers. marius.
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")
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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