Re: [Audacity-devel] 1.2 branch configure script

[Richard A. <ri...@au...>]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 02:22 -0700, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Richard Ash wrote:
> > Is there any reason why the ./configure script for 1.2 branch has the
> > argument "--version=2.4" added to all the WX-CONFIG calls? This  
> > utterly
> > breaks the configure process for me - wx-config for wxGTK 2.4.2  
> > doesn't
> > accept a --version= argument at all.
> >
> > There is also an attempt to look for installed versions using --list,
> > which similarly doesn't work if you have wx 2.4
> >
> > I've changed these, and tweaked the failure message a little so it  
> > works
> > under Linux. Unless anyone complains I'll check them in (configure.in
> > and configure)?
> 
> Ohhh....I added these because on all of my machines I have both wx  
> 2.4 wx 2.6 installed, and Audacity 1.2 was trying to configure itself  
> with wx 2.6.
> 
> I guess it'd be preferable if it could run "wx-config --version" and  
> if the answer is "2.4" it should set WX_CONFIG to wx-config and  
> stop.  For anything else it should try the options I gave it.
> 
> Alternatively we can require the user to set the WX_CONFIG  
> environment variable.  We could have the configure script stop and  
> suggest a WX_CONFIG setting if it detects wx 2.6.

I see. Under Gentoo /usr/bin/wx-config is a symlink to (one of) the
wxgtk 2.4 binary, so that get's found by default. When something needs
2.6 I set WX_CONFIG when running configure to find the right version.
Portage builds do the same thing via some utility functions to get the
desired version.

Obviously not a consistent situation, so we ought to check for both
cases. 

Richard