[Xastir] Definative list of dependencies ?

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Takes time to put them together and, taking a shot a most of us... we do 
a cvs update rather than upgrading via RPMs, so there's no particular 
need for the group here... usually.

I'm currently 'way short on time.  If I had more, I'd try to set the 
process for RPM creation down and 'yum-ify' it.  Yum seems to be the 
best implementation of package and dependency management I've seen.

I do not foresee having enough time to say 'boo' for the next 9 months 
or so.

If I get spare cycles I'll try to put something together on the current 
build and set the process out explicitly so others could build the RPM 
and identify the dependencies.

One problem we run into, a lot, is ImageMagick.  They make changes to 
the API and then document them after release.  They do this on minor 
release numbers and everyoen expects an update to "just work" and when 
it doesn't it's like pulling teeth to get the ImageMagick changes 
identified.

There are others... ImageMagick is just the most visible and frequent one.

gerry

Andrew Rich wrote:
> 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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