Re: tarball should include m4-files needed for autoconf
"Steven M. Schultz" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.mjpeg.devel |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Burkhard Plaum wrote: > But the SDL development package is not that widely installed. By far the most The two ways around that which I have used are: 1) check the "add matching devel packages" when installing the system (I know SuSE offers this option) or 2) 'cvs checkout' and build it (which is what I do for OSX - painless build). > multimedia packages nowadays don't use SDL (for a reason). At one time it was widely used - and I've never had any problems with it. > This is usual practice, also for other projects. Users (the ones who call > configure; make) need only mandatory requirements, developers (the ones who > call ./autogen.sh) need much more (like libtool, automake, autoconf plus > all m4 files)... Thank you for the support. Developers really need to have a well stocked/full "tool box" - many things that ordinary users might not have installed. If folks want to build stripped down or whatever packages then it's up to them to figure out out to do it. Other developers just install the extra packages on their system(s). Cheers, Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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