Re: gEDA-dev: Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap docs build failure on FC5(and other places)

[Dan McMahill <dan-at-NOSPAMmcmahill_dot_net>]

Peter TB Brett wrote:
> On Sunday 30 July 2006 14:54, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> 
> 
>>As for the person who made the point that the problem was an autoconf
>>issue:  If you would care to actually do some work and send a patch to
>>fix the configure.ac file instead of proferring cheap advice, then I'd
>>stand up and take notice.   Otherwise, you're just blowing easy
>>advice out your @ss.  Tweaking the autotools so that they do the right
>>thing in every case is a difficult job.  You'd know that if you tried
>>to do some real implementation.
> 
> 
> I think that the problem is that the latest release of gnucap (0.31?) doesn't 
> even use autoconf/automake.  The calls to latex are hardcoded into the 
> Makefiles.
> 
> Unless I've got the wrong version of the gnucap source code here (from 
> ftp.gnu.org)...
> 

The latest formal release (0.34) does indeed not use autoconf/automake. 
  The last couple of snapshots do except that the distfiles were created 
using the old build system so they're not quite right.

The development snapshots may be found at:

http://www.gnucap.org/devel/

I should take the time to reiterate that 'make distcheck' should be 
thought of as being as important as compiling before making a release. 
I've caught more bugs (missing files mostly) there on various projects 
than I care to think about.

-Dan




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