On Friday 04 January 2008 18:45:34 Steven Yi wrote:
> Well, if possible could we have it just check for libpng and build if
> found and not if not found rather than have an option?  Otherwise, I
> guess if one really wanted to control that, I would imagine having an
> autodetect but also a flag with default to 1 would be nice.

I have to say something about this, as a packager of the software. I'd like to 
(in the future, not now), refactor the build system to eliminate this (IMO) 
misfeature. The build options should be: enable, disable, autodetect (this 
should be the default). Ideally, if I want to build the image opcodes, set 
the option, and if I don't have the necessary depenencies, then scons would 
bomb out right at the beggining instead of waiting for a complete build and 
then fail because a header wasn't found or some such.
This makes it a lot easier for me because:
1. It's easier to detect build-dependencies.
2. I can explicitly disable all things I don't want to build (and thus do not 
get built accidentally).


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Felipe Sateler