Are X11 extension checks in configure.in necessary?

[SDLBugzilla]

This bug report was migrated from our old Bugzilla tracker.

Reported in version: HG 1.2
Reported for operating system, platform: Linux, x86

Comments on the original bug report:

On 2006-01-30 12:10:17 +0000, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

We have a bunch of AC_TRY_COMPILE checks in the configure script for things like --enable-video-x11-vm ... these are now dynamically loaded, so we fail gracefully at runtime if the libraries aren't installed, and we include the extension code and headers in SDL, so we don't need to check if the build system has these extensions, either. Should we just remove these blocks from configure.in? Should we just remove the compile checks, leaving this as a switch to explicitly disable the support at build time?

--ryan.

On 2006-01-31 09:11:50 +0000, Sam Lantinga wrote:

(In reply to comment # 0)

We have a bunch of AC_TRY_COMPILE checks in the configure script for things
like --enable-video-x11-vm ... these are now dynamically loaded, so we fail
gracefully at runtime if the libraries aren't installed, and we include the
extension code and headers in SDL, so we don't need to check if the build
system has these extensions, either. Should we just remove these blocks from
configure.in? Should we just remove the compile checks, leaving this as a
switch to explicitly disable the support at build time?

Sure, that sounds fine.