Re: Build dependencies
Lorenzo Bettini <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.gengetopt.general |
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Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: >> none of these tools are needed to build gengetopt, they're only needed >> in some cases if you want to contribute to gengetopt development. >> They are not even used by gengetopt itself during its execution. > > It has been some time, but I am still doubtful about certain things. I > find that 'valgrind' is necessary to use 'make check' to test the > build. However what about the others, are they also necessary in some > section of the "./configure && make && make check && make install" > dance? It seems not. So why are they still being checked for in the > configure script, when run from the released tarball? > > Happy hacking, > Debarshi Hi there do you mean gengen, bison, flex, etc.? I could add the maintainer mode to the autotools; in that case, do you know whether some checks can be enabled only in maintainer mode? thanks Lorenzo -- Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DSI, Univ. di Firenze ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 (GNU/Linux User # 158233) HOME: http://www.lorenzobettini.it MUSIC: http://www.purplesucker.com BLOGS: http://tronprog.blogspot.com http://longlivemusic.blogspot.com http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt http://www.gnu.org/software/gengen http://doublecpp.sourceforge.net