Re: How a package will determine the dependencies

[Justin Pryzby <jpryzby+d@quoininc.com>]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:42:33PM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote:
> 
> hi
> actually the library uses g_log kind of debugging technique ie some #defines
> are there, so when log is enabled #defines get replaced by g_log(***), and
> when its disabled #defines get replaced by (void)0 
> 
> But i have a bigger problem thats the library has one more option of
> --enable-sdl=yes/no , I checked the source code and enabling it adds a huge
> amount of code to standard library.
Do you mean it adds stuff within a #ifdef to use SDL?  Why is it so
huge?

Or do you mean it compiles a static copy of SDL?  Don't do this; use a
{build,}dep on the shared library package instead.