On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 08:54:16PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:35:09PM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: > > Patrice Dumas writes: > > > The solution I propose is to select SUBDIRS in testsuite based on what > > > is available instead of skipping large parts of Makefile.am. This allows > > > to have make dist works correctly. > > > > I'm not sure that this patch correctly fixes the problem. It appears > > to me as if whoever does ''make dist'' has to have every optional > > thing installed, otherwise the distribution will be missing files. > > That's reasonable. > > No, that's not reasonable ;-). make dist should work in any case because it > packages source files and source files can always be there. Admitedly > there are also generated files that are shipped, because the maintainer > is supposed to have the possibility to generate them, but in that case > all the files leading to that particular generated file should be > shipped such that they are not even rebuilt if the user didn't changed > them, and they should only be removed by make maintainer-clean.
Agreed. > > But the missing files have pointed to a bug. I think I have ming > > installed, but this is configure's output: > > MING version code is > > MING flags are > > MING libs are -lming > > MAKESWF is > > So, either I don't really have ming installed, or there's a bug in > > configure.ac. > > You also have to have the ming library installed. That's a well known "bug", which is you need to have a ming-config script, from which version code and flags are extracted (supposedly). At least this is what it took before nelson touched it (I tought to work-around that ming-config limitation, since ming-config was only available from 0.4 up). --strk; _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
