On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: > Yes, the build ran to completion this time. Now I can do the > interesting work, which I've been quiet about because I don't want to > make any promises I can't keep.
Look forward to seeing whatever you're up to. > Actually I was trying very hard not to make any decisions at all, just > follow the least-effort path laid out by the instructions. My error > seems to have been running autogen.sh without reading INSTALL and > get-deps.sh first. Perhaps autogen.sh should suggest this? That doesn't seem unreasonable to me. > Alas, no. I couldn't use the sqlite binary on my system because it's > too old - 3.7.9. Ahh yeah, I suppose sqlite is the one exception. I do usually use the amalgamation for that. > I understand this full well, which is why I think deprecating the > in-tree build is probably a mistake. Keeping one set of source > dependencies properly tracked is a lot easier than managing > what is in effect a quirk database for an unbounded number > of distro and packaging combinations. As I mentioned before though, the in-tree dependencies are probably not ideal for most people. I think our final fix here is going to be to direct people to get-deps.sh though.
