On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr writes:
I thought I had sent this patch months ago but apparently not. The idea is to warn the user when some often used libraries are missing and is based on the warnings issued for bad Mesa or X configurations. Let me know if the range of checks should be expanded or reduced or otherwise tweaked.
We've discussed this before, I don't think we should warn about these things, it's perfectly harmless in most cases and will just alarm users for no good reason.
Ok. My recollection was that we should not indiscriminately warn about missing libraries which is why I targeted just some of them. Ok, maybe ICU should not have been on the list (certainly Shachar would disagree<g>), but a system that has a non-functional OSS or Alsa driver probably won't have sound which I see as a significant limitation, especially with all the gaming development we see these days.
Maybe a check that there is at least one functional sound system would be ok?
if test "$ac_cv_c_opensoundsystem" = "no" -a -z "$ALSALIBS" -a \ -z "$ARTSC_LIBS" -a -z "$NASLIBS" -a -z "$AUDIOIOLIBS" then echo "*** No sound system was found. Windows applications will be silent." fi
But I personally don't mind checking the configure log so I don't care much one way or another.