Re: [Pipmak-Devel] The Pipmak Make setup for Linux

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

Aidan Gauland wrote:
>   Ok, I have.. more than "tweaked" the Pipmak Makefile for building on Linux,
> and here's how it works...
> 
> ...
> 
>   But what do all you other Pipmak users/developers think of this?

I don't see a Makefile here, so I can't comment in detail...

Generally, I don't really have an opinion either way. I lack the 
experience with Linux to tell whether that is the approach that leads to 
the best compatibility with different distributions. As long as either 
a) it does not get much more difficult for me to build the binary 
releases or b) you take over building of the binary releases, I'm open 
to trying this. (Not for the 0.2.7 release though, which I am planning 
on getting done this weekend.)

> The wrapper script (just a shell script) sets the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> environment variable to look in the libs folder that was created earlier, and
> executes pipmak-bin.

That seems to have been the usual approach for closed-source games. 
However, I seem to remember Gabriele Greco posting that he had some 
problems with that because some newer distributions used that variable 
for system purposes, or something. Have you happened on this in your 
research?

Thanks for your work!

  -Christian