Re: [AD] disable linux console port by default?

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2005-08-04, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 August 2005 14:29, Peter Wang wrote:
> > A recent message on [AL] reminded me of an idea.  We have gotten quite a
> > few reports from people over the years who've built Allegro without X11
> > support by accident due to missing X development libraries.  I wonder if
> > it's time for us to just disable the linux console port by default now.
> 
> I'd prefer a big fat warning if you're building without it, but I assume 
> that's not cutting it even for your average Linux user these days, right?

Big fat warning it is.  I don't really know autoconf so it's probably
the wrong way to do it.  I didn't change the default.

> > There aren't really any good graphics backends left with drivers for
> > modern cards, limiting the usefulness of the port.  
> 
> That's a good point, and one that I've been wondering about quite a bit. 
> VBE/AF is dead. What's the status of SVGALib? Is it dead or alife?

Just looking the website, it appears more or less dead.

Peter

Index: configure.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/alleg/allegro/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.92
diff -u -r1.92 configure.in
--- configure.in	24 Jul 2005 04:46:02 -0000	1.92
+++ configure.in	5 Aug 2005 07:32:07 -0000
@@ -484,6 +484,13 @@
 test "X$enableval" != "Xno" && allegro_enable_linux=yes,
 allegro_enable_linux=yes)
 
+_linux_console="Linux console support:"
+if test "X$allegro_enable_linux" != "Xyes"; then
+  _linux_console="$_linux_console disabled"
+else
+  _linux_console="$_linux_console enabled"
+fi
+
 dnl Enable Linux console VGA driver
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(vga,
 [  --enable-vga[=x]        enable VGA graphics driver [default=yes]],
@@ -800,8 +808,30 @@
  Compiled programs: $_programs
  $_warnmode
  $_x11
+ $_linux_console
+
+EOF
+
+dnl Warn if neither X11 nor Linux console support is going to be built,
+dnl or just if X11 support is not going to be built.
+if test "X$allegro_support_xwindows" != "Xyes"; then
+  if test "X$allegro_enable_linux" != "Xyes"; then
+    cat >> makefile.info << EOF
+ Warning: the library will not be built with either X11 or Linux console
+          support.  This configuration is useless for most purposes.
 
 EOF
+  else
+    cat >> makefile.info << EOF
+ Warning: the library will not be built with X11 support.
+          If you were expecting X11 support then you may need to install
+          the appropriate development packages from your distribution.
+          Otherwise, ignore this warning (it's just that a lot of new
+          users trip up on this).
+
+EOF
+  fi
+fi
 
 dnl Warn if passed --enable-dbg-with-fortify
 if test -n "$allegro_debug_with_fortify"; then