[Freeciv-Dev] Re: request for --disable-sound

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Ben Webb wrote:
>       Well, here's a patch to current CVS. On systems with the dlopen
> function and thegcc 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?

What happens on systems without dlopen and gcc? Which systems don't have
dlopen?

Can you get this patch through the "let's keeping things compatible with
Sun cc" mob?

Yours
Per

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