17 Apr
2008
17 Apr
'08
6:23 a.m.
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 09:58 +0200, Richard Spindler wrote:
This sounds really cumbersome. And some very widely
used distributions
do not install a C-Compiler by default.
Very few distributions - if any at all? - installs TeX by default
either. Nevertheless this is a dependency if you want
Rosegarden/Lillypond aboard and you'll get it if you click YES to
'install packages'.
A C-compiler would not be any different. So I don't buy your argument!
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.
It would have been smarter to have liboil.so be a symlink to
liboil-sse_4_1.so (or whatever hardware you may have)
Cheers
-Richard
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