[Openal-devel] Re: native back-ends option

[Prakash Punnoor]

Am Montag Januar 2 2006 11:25 schrieb Sven Panne:
> The reason for having separate flags for the native backends is simple:
> Consistency. Those backends have no special status at all, apart from the

Of course, but my point it, you won't use eg the irix back-end in linux, so 
infact each of the native backends can be seen as "either or", but not two 
the same time, that's why I don't think you need those options. My intention 
is, that eg a linux user doesn't want to see irix, morphos, windows etc 
options. That's why in CMake I try to present only options which are 
available on current target. Using one name for all exlusive-or backends 
seems to make senese to me.

> Another question is: Do we need separate flags for enabling the dynamic
> variants of the backends or is a single --enable-dlopen-backends option
> enough? I am not sure about that yet...

Good question. I think this is a good point, as I don't really se the sense in 
specific dlopening, as well. 
BTW, shouldn't there be a check before enabling back-end dlopen in configure 
whether the dlopen stuff failed or not (there is some check for libdl or 
alike)? Or do I confuse something?

bye,
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