Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Re: [Xpert]mesa assuming glibc 2.2? (Cannot compile 4.1 on RedHat 6.2)

[Mike A. H. <mh...@re...>]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Brian Paul wrote:

>>  Granted, it's not the best solution, but it's at least an useful error.
>>  Some conditionals on the configuration files would do it, too.
>>  (HAVE_LINUX_2_4_HEADERS, Imakefile style).  The point is, you need 2.4
>>  kernel headers to compile this.
>
>
>I'd like to see a solution that doesn't interupt compilation.  That
>is, if we can't use SSE at compile time, it should just be disabled,
>perhaps with a warning.

Then in order to use SSE on a machine at runtime, one must have
an SSE capable machine to build on?  I don't like the sound of
that, even if my box has SSE.  IMHO, the build host should be
independant of the runtime host.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding the above comments?



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