[Freeciv-Dev] Re: request for --disable-sound (PR#1607)

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:03:14PM +0200, Per I Mathisen wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Ben Webb wrote:
> > > > (On the other hand, multiple binary distributions are inefficient.)
> > > > Plugins would allow a main package to be distributed, plus additional
> > > > packages for other sound systems - for example, XMMS does this with its
> > > > xmms, xmms-esd, xmms-vorbis, etc. RPMs.
> > > Seems like a lot of work for very little gain.
> >
> > True, but the work is fun...
> >
> > If anyone _likes_ the idea, I can make a patch. I won't bother otherwise
> > though. ;)
> 
> I like the idea, but I really dislike libtool. Is there any way to avoid
> libtool hell?

        Well, here's a patch to current CVS. On systems with the dlopen
function and the gcc compiler, the various audio modules are not linked
in to the client binary, but are built as dynamic libraries (plugins).
This behaviour can be disabled via. the --disable-plugins configure
option, in which case the modules are linked in as per normal. It
doesn't use libtool (that's why the dynamic loader support is restricted
to gcc+dlopen systems) so doesn't interfere too much with the standard
build process. (This does also mean that Makefile.am is a bit ugly...)

Comments?

        Ben
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