Re: [E-devel] elm_win_add() Cannot create window

[Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...>]

On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 13:19:57 +0200 (CEST) Vincent Torri <vt...@un...>
said:

> > no. it's up to the caller to handle an engine find fail. in this case the
> > caller wasnt handling it. changes ae not even the minimum default set of
> > loaders was there. if make install wasnt being used and whatever was done to
> > replace it was done badly6 - then it's far from being out problem in code to
> > fix :)
> 
> it's always good to have logging, it helps knowing what the problem is. It 
> does not prevent the user doing what is needed if the engine is not 
> found,of course.

well u could log every malloc fail, or every time open() fails to find a
file... but it'd be bad style as you'd make a noisy app that the app author
cannot control. asking for an engine and getting a failed return is how you
detect if the engine is supported or not. making it printf on this is a bad
idea.

> >>> - why evas will install and search modules in e.g.
> >>> /usr/lib/evas/modules/engines/gl_x11/linux-uclibc-i686-ver-pre-svn-04/module.so
> >>> and not e.g. /usr/lib/evas/modules/engines/gl_x11/module.so - how can i
> >>> change this?
> >>
> >> You can't change that by just configuring evas with one way or another.
> >> It's the way evas modules must be installed (except on Windows CE for odd
> >> reasons)
> >>
> >> But you can change configure.ac so that MODULE_ARCH is set to "". It
> >> should work the way you want.
> >
> > i highly suggest not doing that.
> 
> sure. He wants a solution, there is one. Not a good one, but there is. It 
> seems that he has some specific needs.

he doesn't need a solution. beyond having simply written bad install scripts of
his own which makes it his own bug/problem. :) i don't see a good reason to not
use the make install. it's used in packaging for multiple distros - it can
install anywhere you like.. using DESTDIR is a standard way to do this. i don't
see a very good reason to do your own manual install scripts. :)

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