On Saturday 18 February 2006 08:46, Mike McCormack wrote:
Mike Frysinger wrote:
this patch adds a bunch of --without-FOO options to configure ... some are very simple (like the sane/xml checks) while some others are slightly more involved
What's the point of crippling Wine like this?
the default behavior is not changed in any way ... and the point isnt to cripple, but to offer control
the point of the patch is to allow people to have finer control over the featureset of wine ... for example, you wish to build on one machine but deploy on others, you cannot be sure what features wine will require if the build env has many more packages than the target host env
another example would be what i do with my machine ... i sometimes keep some packages like ldap and jack installed on my box in case i need to test them, but i generally never want anything else using them in case i happen to punt them ... atm i would need to analyze the configure script and export some cache vars in order to prevent ldap/jack support from being enabled, but with the patch all i would need to do is `./configure --without-ldap --without-jack` -mike