Re: [TuxKart-devel] configure dir

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Bram Stolk wrote:

> A remark:
> autocont/automake suggests doing the configure stage in a directory
> other than the distrib dir.

Why?  That's crazy - everyone unpacks the tarball, cd's into
the newly formed directory and types ./configure;make;make install
...which works just fine.

Why on earth would you want to do any different?
 
> If you follow this advice, a make install will fail for tuxkart.
> (/usr/local/share/* remains empty)
> Turkart will only install if distrib-dir == configure-dir.

I guess I don't understand the issue - nobody else of the 1000 or
so downloads since yesterday has mentioned this. TuxAQFH and PLIB
both use the same mechanisms - and between those two, that's 200,000
downloads with no complaints.

What's the problem?
 
> I cannot comment on the game itself, unfortunately, I do not
> have a joystick. (I guess my forcefeedback wheel is a no-go with linux)

Dunno - the force-feedback part is no-go because Microsoft won't share
the interface details for force-feedback devices.  But as a digital
joystick-like device, it's probably supported.
 
I'm working on a keyboard and/or mouse interface as we speak - so
it shouldn't be long in coming.

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