[Xastir] Definative list of dependencies ?

[Andrew Rich]

I have a question, there are some .rpm's floating around that 
work first go, but they are really old.

How come there are no new ones ?

Can I help make them ? How do you do it ?


On Sunday 15 May 2005 01:46, Andrew Rich wrote:
> Here is a good place to start. explain to users that gcc is missing
>
> most people just give up
>
> linux:/xastir/xastir-1.5.0 # ./configure
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>
> Configuring xastir 1.5.0
>
> checking build system type... i686-suse-linux
> checking host system type... i686-suse-linux
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cl... no
> configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
> See `config.log' for more details.
> linux:/xastir/xastir-1.5.0 #
>
> On Saturday 14 May 2005 03:29, Carl Makin wrote:
> > On 14/05/2005, at 7:19 PM, Andrew Rich wrote:
> > > Maybe a script that checks for dependencies and reports what is
> > > missing ?
> >
> > The configure script pretty much does exactly that.  What it doesn't
> > say is what packages the missing files are a part of.  This would be
> > very difficult as not only are the different OSes different, the
> > different linux distributions are very different.
> >
> > If you need that level of support then perhaps waiting for the pre-
> > packaged versions would be a better option.
> >
> >
> > Carl.
>
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