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Re: build-dependencies from ./configure



Le ven 08/08/2003 à 01:25, Chipzz a écrit :
> On 8 Aug 2003, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> 
> > From: Jérôme Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net>
> > Subject: build-dependencies from ./configure
> >
> > Is there already a script out there that gets the correct dependencies
> > versions out of ./configure and fulfills debian/control automatically?
> > If not, is there a good reason *not* to do it?
> 
> First you'ld want to get them from configure.in, not configure.
> Second, configure.in isn't by ANY account standard. Every developer has
> his/her own coding style.
> Third, you could possibly do this for stuff using pkgconfig, but prolly
> not for other stuff.
> Fourth, even for pkgconfig, you may loose version information, or, if
> you get it, loose generality (some people use variables to keep the
> required versions in).
I'm talking exactly about those using pkg-config.
I just read it should be possible tracking PKG_CHECK_MODULES.

> And then we're only talking about packages that use autoconf.
Most (all?) GNOME packages are.

> But if you're some kind of genius, you're welcome to write a script that
> does all this. ;)
I'm surely not, and I don't know if I'll succeed, but at least I'll try
and hope it'll really helps me later submitting even more bug reports
;-).

> > Regards
> 
> kr,
> 
> Chipzz AKA
> Jan Van Buggenhout
> -- 
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Jérôme Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net>

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