Re: So, what do I need?

On 27/07/10 09:38, Elio Blanca wrote:

> I recently installed a fresh new lucid lynx system and, of course,
> a recent build of dvdauthor was needed :-)
> I see there is actually no list of requested packages to build the suite.

On Debian derivatives, a command like

     apt-get build-dep dvdauthor

should be a good start. I think the only additional dependency in newer 
versions is fontconfig, and that’s optional. Though highly recommended.

> Are these informations useful for the user? I would expect to read them
> in an `INSTALL' file, wouldn't you?

Remember that the distribution tarball already has the configure and 
Makefile files generated, so automake, autoconf and gettext are 
unnecessary at that stage. Similarly bison and flex are not needed 
because they were already invoked when the tarball was generated.

Somebody working with the original source tree (as you are) will need 
these additions, of course. But in this situation, needing things like 
automake and autoconf pretty much goes without saying, anyway.

As for the others ... well, the user finds out about them from the error 
messages reported when running the configure script. That’s how other 
packages seem to do it. So you install the missing dependencies and 
rerun configure. So long as there aren’t huge numbers of dependencies, 
this doesn’t seem too onerous. :)

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