Re: configure for libdockapp 0.7.0

Doug Torrance <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.compw.window-managers.windowmaker.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/03/2015 03:49 PM, Shining wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I downloaded libdockapp from
> http://windowmaker.org/dockapps/?download=libdockapp-0.7.0.tar.gz
> and when I extracted the tarball I found no ./configure there,
> despite instructions in README say there must one.
>
> Then I managed to build one by myself using libtool 2.4.2 and
> autoconf 2.13. I did not touch anything about the original code so
> the result is I built fifteen new files:
> aclocal.m4
> autom4te.cache
> compile
> config.guess
> config.sub
> configure
> dockapp.pc
> Makefile.in
> Makefile.in
> INSTALL
> install-sh
> ltmain.sh
> Makefile.in
> missing
> Makefile.in
>
> I guess rules about "Submitting patches" as explained in
> http://windowmaker.org/dev.php don't fit with this case.
>
> So what's better? Should I attach just the new files to this list or
> should I send a tarball with all the sources or what else?

The tarball linked to from the Window Maker website is a snapshot of 
what's in the git repository, which shouldn't include auto-generated 
files like these ones.

Probably the best option would be to include instructions in the README 
telling users how to generate the configure script.

If you'd like to do this, go ahead and submit a patch.  Otherwise, I'll 
try to get around to it in the near future.

Doug


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