Re: Re: [AD] Deprecated functions and fix.sh

[Jon Rafkind <workmin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 > > 	Why are the textprintf functions deprecated in the CVS version of
 > > allegro?
 > 
 > Because the old text functions depend on text_mode(), so the whole stuff is 
 > not reentrant.
 > 

Then what functions are we supposed to use? Textout cant take a variable arguement list like textprintf. Are you forcing us to do something like
char p[1000];
sprintf( p, "Info %s, number %d, something %s", str1, n1, str2 );
textout( bitmap, font, p, 30, 30, makecol(255,255,255) );
?

 > > Also, I tried to compile allegro for Solaris Sparc 8 and had some
 > > problems.
 > 
 > What problems exactly? The 4.0.3 release compiled on SPARC/Solaris 7 without 
 > a hitch.
 > 
 I guess I had a library missing or something, but when it came time to compile some of the tools, i got error messages about xf2pcx. Can you make it optional to compile the tools since they are necessary for the usage of allegro? Maybe an option in configure, --no-tools.