On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 07:37 -0500, Nate Straz wrote: > On Feb 16 19:04, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Subrata Modak > > > in LTP to automatically install the pre-requisite patches when user > > > wants to use autotools. 'make prep' will fetch the sources of > > > 1) m4, > > > 2) autoconf, > > > 3) automake, > > > > > > build & install them in the user system. ltp/INSTALL and ltp/Makefile > > > has been updated with such information. > > > > Uh... why not just add a check for these items and print out an error > > if things don't already exist? I mean, distribution methods will vary > > per Linux distro, and as such building them and installing them on the > > system might not be such a great idea.
Well then, i would keep this script with me and keep updating the package(s) version(s) in the code. I thought this would help me a lot as well as to others, who might be wanting to do: > make maintainer-clean > make with root privilege. > I agree, this isn't a good idea. Also, isn't the point of autotools > that the maintainer generates the scripts before releasing so the users > don't have to generate them. Then they're supposed to be able to run on > any system without autotools installed. True. This was supposed to be as optional as: make autotools, is for users. Regards-- Subrata > > Nate > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Ltp-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
