On 1/17/03 at 12:33 PM Michael Selig wrote:

>At 1/17/03, Benjamin Lee Solosy wrote:
>>In summary, a reasonable/working set of configure options might be:
>>./configure --with-network-olk --with-weathercm
>>--with-plib=/usr/include/plib
>>--with-metakit=/usr/local/src/SimGear-0.3.1/src-libs/metakit-2.4.3
>>--with-simgear=/usr/local/src/SimGear-0.3.1/simgear
>>--prefix=/usr/local/FlightGear --disable-jsbsim --disable-yasim
>>--disable-larcsim --disable-uiuc
>
>Why disable the fdms (one, some, or all)?
>
>Also, I did not think that these disable options were part of the cvs.  I 
>thought all discussions on this pointed to not including such 
>"features".  If there are problems w/ compiling certain parts of fgfs on a

>particular platform, I think the developers should fix those parts rather 
>than simply disabling them.
>
>I think all of the fdms have their particular good features and associated

>aircraft, and I would not want to see some or all of those die by first 
>disabling them and then ultimately not supporting them.
>
>Regards,
>Michael


I'm pretty sure that none of those disable-fdm options actually do anything
- its probably a rare case of an open-source project where the documenters
are ahead of the coders :-)

As for Benjamin's suggested options, I would suggest that in a manual aimed
at beginners to Flightgear - 

Forget --with-network-olk - its not being maintained, probably doesn't work
anymore (based on a posting on the lists a while back), never worked on
windows, and others (ace project) seem to be making good progress in this
area.  Just use the default.

Why --with-weathercm - why not just forget specifying which weather module
to use and just run with the default, which at the moment is
FGNewEnvironment.  (No offence intended to weathercm here BTW - I'm just
looking at this from a 1st time compiler's perspective.)

And why would anyone (especially a beginner) want to disable all the fdm's?
(ignoring the fact that these options don't do anything!)

In summary, I'd suggest just leaving it at the 

--with-metakit=
--with-simgear=
--with-plib=

--prefix=

options *if* needed/wanted, and possibly adding a mention of
--without-logging which will cut down the console output a lot (and is also
a valid option to SimGear's configure script, which also puts out console
output).

Its probably also worth stressing that if in doubt, just typing ./configure
*should* work, with the possible exception of picking up the Metakit
libraries.

Cheers - Dave



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