RE: [Bug-gnubg] How does one set up the database

[Øystein Johansen]

>On the other issue - ftgl and autoconf - looking at the header files
>for ftgl, it looks like it entirely a set of C++ class
>definitions. Can an configure script simply create a static instance
>of one of the classes? I assume that will fail to link if it doesn't
>find the library. All of the publics in libftgl.a are C++ names with the
>signature prefixes, so there's no obvious trivial way of checking that
>the library has been located and linked

AFAIK, FTGL isn't used in any part og GNU Backgammon, so I wonder why autoconf
looks for this.

-Øystein