17 Apr
2008
17 Apr
'08
10:17 a.m.
This sounds really cumbersome. And some very widely used distributions
do not install a C-Compiler by default.
What do you think about the approach taken by "liboil"?
http://liboil.freedesktop.org/
The library has implementations for various CPU-Extensions, and at run
time, when the library is initialized, a set of function pointers is
set to point to the "right" implementation functions.
Cheers
-Richard
How about getting the package installer to do the test and select the
appropriate binary (or at least dl lib)? Of course, that'd screw up machines
which nfs mount /usr/bin, but do many people use diskless workstations these
days? And you wouldn't have to run the checks every time the application
started up.
Just a thought...
NJB/.