[SDL] Package SDL in a linux game installer?

[Gabriele Greco]

I'm ready to ship the demo of Ankh2 (www.ankh-game.com), that uses SDL 
for input handling & opengl context setup.

In Ankh1 I provided a compiled version of SDL inside the installer 
archive, but I'm planning for Ankh2 to NOT to ship SDL with the game but 
to use the default version of the linux distro.

The most "recent" feature of SDL the game use is SDL_GetVideoInfo() to 
get the desktop width/height and clone it's resolution, but this is 
provided since 1.2.7 that I think it's available on every recent linux 
distro...

I'm also planning as requirement libstdc++.so.6, since I don't want to 
ship the standard c++ runtime, this requirement may change, I could ship 
libstdc++ like I did for Ankh1 but I'd like to use the new improved 
version since the api of the library seems stable across revisions since 
gcc-3.4... I cannot follow the "autopackage" approach to provide two 
binaries for libstdc++.so.5 and .6 because actually the game don't build 
at all with 3.3 or older gcc...

Any comment on problems I may have following this approach? :)

I think the demo will ship anyway this way but I'll have a few weeks to 
change the build process if I find some REAL weakness!

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Bye,
  Gabry