Re: Bug in Build system.

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 09:00, Marc Str=C3=A4mke wrote:
> (Sorry to report here, our bugzilla seems to be broken *G*)
> The Build system doesnt work if the user hasnt got SDL installed, this=20
> is so because it cant find the AM_PATH_SDL macro, so basically atm you=20
> cant build on a system which doesnt have SDL installed.
>=20

IMO this isn't a bug.  Those who are going to *develop libstk* should be
able to run autogen.sh (and therefor will need all the macros it
needs).  End users (programmers who will *use libstk*) will just use the
configure script we generate and distribute (and therefor won't need the
AM_PATH_SDL macro).

In order to "fix" this, we would need a preprocessor for configure.in
(and I have my fill of indirection in the build process thank you very
much).  I looked into this for an hour or so tonight and the only way to
do this would be to use pkgconfig, which SDL doesn't at the moment.  So
until then, install SDL (or at least the SDL .m4 file, I can make that
available if people want that).

If anyone knows of a better solution, please let me know, otherwise just
install the libsdl devel packages and be done with it.

Darren

>=20
>=20
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