Re: tarball should include m4-files needed for autoconf

Matthias Schwarzott <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mjpeg.devel
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


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Matthias Schwarzott (zzam)

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