On 1/22/07, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:35:17PM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > Perhaps I should also add that xkeyboard-config depends on > > > intltool. > > > > Actually, it depends on XML-Parser. Intltool works like autoconf where > > it only ever needs to be run to generate the in tree scripts. However, > > the scripts use the XML-Parser perl module. But, point taken. > > > I defer to your expertise - I can't work out WTF is going on in the > xkeyboard-config-0.9/configure script around line 2297, but I saw it > was looking for intltool, and complaining if the version was < 0.30. > > But then, at line 2351 it says to use the tools built in to the > package, not the one that are installed.
It's actually part of the standard autoconf intltool macro to check whether you have intltool installed. But, like you said, it uses the in-tree copy. Actually, it was Randy who brought that to my attention a couple months ago. He said he'd built all of gnome without intltool. Indeed, I did the same thing over the past couple weeks. The only time I _really_ needed it was when I applied a patch that were I needed to regenerate the autotools, where it runs "intltoolize". So, the BLFS book is sort of lying about intltool being a dependency in various spots. Randy said the same, but I think he ultimately decided to leave it in there since he wasn't 100% positive. Specific to xkeyboard-config, I would expect that the autotools get smoothed out more in new releases. Up until xkbdata got officially deprecated, I don't think the xkeyboard-config audience was that large. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
