[sldev] Wanted: Standard cross-platform library for CPU detection

[Tofu Linden]

Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 19:25 +0100, Tofu Linden wrote:
>> I've used liboil in the past - it's pretty cool.  I seem to
>> recall that it was fairly painful to package, though, if not
>> anticipating relying upon a system-installed one.  It's also
>> quite large (another packaging concern).
> 
> Large? Its 516kb on x86_64, which is a bit larger than I'd expect from
> looking at the source. Not particularly large compared to the secondlife
> binary itself, 24mb(!).

That's not bad - smaller than I remember - though it'd be cool if
we were using liboil for more than just CPU detection to justify
it.  Any OSX users with experience of liboil's happiness there?

-Tofu