Re: [Pipmak-Devel] Transition interrupts

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

Aidan Gauland wrote:
>   Ok, that makes sense, I'm sending another patch (generated r180), 
> which does the same thing as the last one, but with no extra variable.

Thanks, this is in - rev. 181.

> My point is that you might have to take a more general approach to work on as many Linux distributions as possible.

That's exactly what I was trying to do by not requiring system-installed 
versions of Lua and Physfs. It takes a bit more hand work for the 
builder, but we can stick with a single Makefile, which seems more 
maintainable to me than having several ones, or one and a set of patches 
on top of it, for different distributions. That's why I see 
autodetection as a better alternative.

Another point on the topic of working on as many Linux distributions as 
possible: I have never taken any particular steps to make my binary 
releases distribution-independent (which is a somewhat delicate science 
- for more info, see the SDL mailing list archives, the topic comes up 
every now and then there, with links to articles on the web). I just 
build them on my Ubuntu or Fedora boxes, and if they work elsewhere, 
good, if not, people have to live with building from source. If anyone 
would like to spend some effort on this, that would be welcome.

In general, you would be welcome to take over maintenance of the Linux 
build system and the official binary releases. In that case I would give 
you free rein on the makefiles and stuff. I admit that I have been 
treating this with a somewhat reduced priority since Linux is not my 
main day-to-day OS.

  -Christian