On 5/17/06, Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/16/06, Stephen Thorne <stephen.thorne at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Oh, that's because I (summarily) decided it shouldn't be there.
> > configure is automatically generated from configure.in, using
> > autoconf.
> >
> > Either revert the patch that removes it (darcs unpull -p patchname;
> > find the patchname by looking at 'darcs changes') or run autoconf.
> >
> > SDL is required for autoconf to be run.
>
> SDL is an outside library.

Developers are expected to have all the libraries.

Non-developers can use the released source, in tarball form, with the
configure generated by someone with autoconf and all the libraries.

This is standard practice.
-- 
Stephen Thorne

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