Re: Running makedist on a machine w/o midgard installed failes when making apache2 tarball.

"Piotras" <pp-VVDi8QVAvoBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:29:17 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.midgard.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Reason: in makedist, ./configure is run, and it doesn't find
> midgard-config if there isn't another midgard-config in the path
> allready.
>
> Question: a) Why is ./configure run at all?

Because is called when 'make dist' is running.

> b) What is the best solution? Add
> --with-midgard-configure=../../core/midgard/midgard-configure

Bad , but I think you have no other choice :/

> or
> not run configure at all?

This is even worst. You can not have midgard then ;)

What could be done is to move midgard-config functionality to header files.
But the question is, how to define headers location then?

I have the same problem with makedist for nightly builds.

Piotras