On Friday 01 April 2005 05:56, Sean Dague wrote: > The very first parts of this are in now. Before running make, you must run > ./configure from CVS. To make people's lives easier I did check in > configure, and not just the autoconf files that will generate it (though > they are there too, in the autoconf dir). > > Today it does 2 things of value: > > Figures out where python is, and sets that (replacing a shell command in > the master makefile)
Python? Are we using that now? Seriously, though, the *only* thing that needs python is mklibs, and I think mklibs has dragged us into the weeds as far as build correctness goes (see my reply to your 64 bit post). I'd rather see us move towards a build environment that doesn't need mklibs. One thing I have noticed is that mklibs in 3.4.x seems to malfunction with the python on rh9, which is 2.2. I'm not sure if that's the source of the problem, but you might want to try to insure that the version is at least 2.3. > Figures out if you have docbook2man, and if not disables the documentation > building. And I tried so hard to get at least some of the docco to build right in the 3.2.3 specfile ;-). > Dann, do you maintain an accurate list of build requires for debian? That > might go some way to forcing all those checks in configure, so you'd know > up front what packages you needed. Dann's off the hook for specfile maint... I've been doing it lately. And no, the build requires is not even close to up to date. Some of the reasons are that I build on redhat/fedora (useful portability check IMHO), and until fairly recent versions of rpm the buildrequires option didn't work anyway. > > Comments are welcomed > > -Sean ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
