configure.ac: add a --without-prelink option

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 00:36:01 CDT 2011


On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 22:33, Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel at kievinfo.com> wrote:
> On 04/06/2011 07:53 PM, Austin English wrote:
>>
>> Prelink is only available on Linux.
>
> It's not a reason to disable the warning. Without prelink, or other means to
> set load addresses of core dlls, compiled Wine won't be compatible with some
> programs. Mainly copy protection.

Of course. The warning is still there by default, but there's no
reason we shouldn't allow hiding the warning. Hell, we allow disabling
X/freetype/etc., which break Wine much worse. There's no reason to
warn users of *BSD/OS X/Solaris about something that they can't fix.

-- 
-Austin



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