[cairo] Flag for FP-challenged platforms

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 30, 2006, at 13:40, Carl Worth wrote:

> Speaking of which, in all other similar cases we try to automatically
> detect system capabilities rather than make the user select, (and even
> then, to manually select the user doesn't use configure options but
> goes through some awkward hoop of priming a cache file). I don't think
> that awkward cache priming is a good thing, (another autoconf bug
> there). But would it be too crazy to write code to figure out which
> paths to choose?
>
> I mean, we're talking about cairo wanting to select between different
> code paths based on their performance characteristics. Why not just
> have the build system compile, run, and measure both rather than
> making the user decide?

Wouldn't that be problematic for cross-compilation scenarios?