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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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The descriptions seem correct.

Thank you. I've created a review request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680205

I don't know that you should even include the allegro-main library. I think it's just an empty library on Linux.

You may be correct. IIRC, I was told in #allegro-dev that it should be used anyway for platform independent programs. :-/ I didn't actually bother to look inside it until now. It looks like it surely will be compiled down to practically nothing in Linux, but I guess at least the header files are still necessary to avoid warnings about them being missing. :-/ I wonder what, if anything, is even in the .so (and why it would be compiled at all in Linux)... :-X

Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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pepsi@fractalcmt:~ 01:48 PM $ ls /usr/local/lib/liballegro_main.so -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2011-02-21 20:30 /usr/local/lib/liballegro_main.so -> liballegro_main.so.5.0
pepsi@fractalcmt:~ 01:49 PM $ ls /usr/local/lib/liballegro_main.so.5.0 -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2011-02-21 16:45 /usr/local/lib/liballegro_main.so.5.0 -> liballegro_main.so.5.0.0
pepsi@fractalcmt:~ 01:49 PM $ ls /usr/local/lib/liballegro_main.so -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2011-02-21 20:30 /usr/local/lib/liballegro_main.so -> liballegro_main.so.5.0
pepsi@fractalcmt:~ 01:49 PM $ ls /usr/local/lib/liballegro_main.so.5.0 -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2011-02-21 16:45 /usr/local/lib/liballegro_main.so.5.0 -> liballegro_main.so.5.0.0
pepsi@fractalcmt:~ 01:49 PM $ ls /usr/local/lib/liballegro_main.so.5.0.0 -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4074 2011-02-21 20:29 /usr/local/lib/liballegro_main.so.5.0.0
pepsi@fractalcmt:~ 01:49 PM $ nm /usr/local/lib/liballegro_main.so.5.0.0
000014dc a _DYNAMIC
00001628 a GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE
         w _Jv_RegisterClasses
000014cc d _CTOR_END_
000014c8 d _CTOR_LIST_
000014d4 d _DTOR_END_
000014d0 d _DTOR_LIST_
000004c4 r _FRAME_END_
000014d8 d _JCR_END_
000014d8 d _JCR_LIST_
00001640 A __bss_start
         w __cxa_finalize@@GLIBC_2.1.3
00000470 t __do_global_ctors_aux
000003b0 t __do_global_dtors_aux
0000163c d __dso_handle
         w _gmon_start_
00000467 t __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx
00001640 A _edata
00001648 A _end
000004a8 T _fini
00000348 T _init
00001640 b completed.5936
00001644 b dtor_idx.5938
00000430 t frame_dummy

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bamccaig
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July 2006
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Now that I actually look at the package contents, there's really nothing in the main addon packages at all... There's only the empty (for all intents and purposes) shared object file and its symlinks, and the useless (for all intents and purposes) .pc file... Not even a header file. Then again, perhaps the developers wanted for UNIX build systems to be able to still link to this shared object library (which does nothing) so that users don't need special OS X build rules? It looks like Linux-wise I could get rid of the main addon altogether, but perhaps the Allegro developers want it distributed anyway? Well? :P

Thomas Fjellstrom
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June 2000
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Thats pretty much it. This way you don't have to special case linking. You can just link to allegro and allegro_main and call it a day.

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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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bamccaig said:

Then again, perhaps the developers wanted for UNIX build systems to be able to still link to this shared object library (which does nothing) so that users don't need special OS X build rules? It looks like Linux-wise I could get rid of the main addon altogether, but perhaps the Allegro developers want it distributed anyway?

Basically this, yes.
With allegro-main included in the linker options (through pkg-config), the same code compiles, with the exact same Makefile, on any flavour of UNIX, including Linux and Mac OS X.

Peter Wang
Member #23
April 2000

You might want to place allegro_main in the main allegro package.

bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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You might want to place allegro_main in the main allegro package.

The allegro package maintainer (who is going to be sponsoring me if all works out) actually suggested that I merge most of the addons (basically any that don't pull in extra dependencies) into the main package. :) So no worries. That will be addressed shortly. Thanks for the help.

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