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To: "Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@inetarena.com>
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Subject: Re: Configure patch for Linux sound=native
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From: Markus Gutschke <gutschk@uni-muenster.de>
Date: 23 Mar 1997 10:28:41 +0100
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"Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@inetarena.com> writes:
>  I added a test for 'sound' in "/proc/devices" under Linux.  It will
> auto-detect native sound support now.  I cannot get 'autoconf' to
> build a new configure file, so I editted configure directly...  Here's
> two patches, one for each of configure and configure.in.  Take your
> pick.

I don't think, this is a good idea. AFAIK, it has been a long standing
tradition to _not_ check for runtime features when configuring. This
was mainly intended to allow for cross-compilability, but in this case
it is even worse. Imagine what happens if you build XEmacs on a
machine that autoloads sound support via "kerneld". Depending on
whether you used the sound subsystem recently, the configuration will
end up to be different!


Markus

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