[PD] Gem: can't load library

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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 at 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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