Re: [Gnash-dev] What's up with MIT-SHM ?

[strk]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:11:58PM -0400, Dossy Shiobara wrote:
> Bastiaan Jacques wrote:

> >Okay, but why was it necessary to undef ENABLE_MIT_SHM?
> 
> I shouldn't have - I should have fixed configure to make sure 
> gnashconfig.h was generated correctly.  In gnashconfig.h on Win32, I see:
> 
> /* Use MIT-SHM X extension if available */
> #define ENABLE_MIT_SHM 1
> 
> So, either:
> 
> 1) autoconf needs adjustment to not define that on Win32, or
> 
> 2) Win32 builds need to work with ENABLE_MIT_SHM defined
> 
> Sorry about the hasty #undef - I must have left it in while hacking the 
> Win32 build back to life.
> 
> Should Win32 builds use MIT-SHM?  Given that the resulting binaries are 
> not meant to run under Cygwin X11, I would guess the answer should be 
> "no" - am I understanding correctly?

Just a note: there no real "detection" code in ./configure.
Is just an optional thing, default to on, --disable-mit-shm to disable.
Runtime check should exist anyway, so I guess (2) would be the one to
follow.

--strk;