On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net>wrote:

> Kees Nuyt wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:12:16 +0200, Baruch Burstein
>> <bmburst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Is there a permanent link I can use that will always point to the latest
>>> amalgamation (or .zip containing it)? I would like to automate a make
>>> script that will use the latest sqlite.
>>> I know I can use a link to the latest release in the repo, but that
>>> means I
>>> would need to build the amalgamation as part of this make step.
>>>
>>
>> You make it sound very difficult to build the amalgamation source,
>> but actually it's just "make sqlite3.c".
>>
>> So the easiest way really is to:
>> * clone the fossil repo (once),
>> * pull in updates periodically,
>> * ./configure with the proper options/defines/omits
>>                 for whatever your project needs,
>> * make sqlite3.c, * make your project.
>>
>
> I don't think that answer is appropriate for some common use cases, which
> may include the original requestor.  Say for example and end user of the
> DBD::SQLite Perl module that wants to pull in the latest SQLite version to
> build it against, without having to specify a version.  We shouldn't expect
> such a user to have a fossil client, they should just be able to pull the
> amalgamation tarball over the web. -- Darren Duncan
>
I don't remember the exact path offhand, but fossil web ui has a URL that
return the requested checkin as a tarball, no need for a fossil client.

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