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

[Aidan G. <wgs...@ih...>]

Christian Walther wrote:
> 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...

I'll send that now. :-D  And the wrapper script.

> 
> 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.)

I'll take over building the Linux binary release, if that would make things
easier.

> 
>> 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?

I've not heard of that.  I thought Linux systems used something else.  But
even if that is a problem, I can easily avoid that, by appending to that
variable, rather than overwriting it.

And by the way, I tried searching the SDL mailing list archives, but it wasn't 
working for me.