Re: tarball should include m4-files needed for autoconf
Matthias Schwarzott <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.mjpeg.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Montag, 26. Februar 2007, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > > Next simple suggestion: > > Please include the m4 files needed to regenerate configure into your > > tarball. > > No. > > Any reasonable system has gtk and glib present. SDL is used for > playing video which seems to be a reasonable thing to do for a > video related package. > > I have never liked bundling in m4 files - so I would rather this not > be done to mjpegtools. > > Steven Schultz > > That means you wanna tell me: SDL is optional, but if I want to regenerate configure (because I needed to change something), I am forced to install sdl just for that? It seems that gtk.m4 is no longer necessary as checked by pkgconfig now, but sdl.m4 still is. And I normally do not want to install sdl just to be able to compile mjpegtools WITHOUT sdl support to get mplex. Matthias -- Matthias Schwarzott (zzam) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV