Re: ogle on Solaris sparc without libmlib

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Vincent Cojot wrote:

> That's not exactly true. Programs that make use of libmlib gracefully fall
> back to software rendering if no hardware is available for hardware
> acceleration. That's in libmlib routines where generic acceleration
> routines call platform-dependent routines. However, your application
> -must- be linked with libmlib.so.2 in order to do that. So that pretty
> much requires that libmlib.so.2 be present. In ogle's case on Solaris,
> either we should dlopen() libmlib to see if it's present or make it a
> pre-requisite for installing ogle. I'd recommmend making libmlib a
> pre-requiste for binary packages since libmlib is going to be integrated
> into the base OS anyway...

Thanks Vincent,  I'll repackage to include a dependency on SUNWmlib.

Jake