Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Update on packaging

[Bryan G. <Bry...@HP...>]

Bruno,

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:34:06PM +0000, Cornec, Bruno (Linux Consultant) wrote:
> > I still have one remaining issue.
> 
> And here is the question of the day ;-)
> 
> Currently the autoconf.ac script makes checks on tools such as mkisofs,
> perl modules, ...
> 
> The problem is that this should be rather done a run time than at build
> time, because the machine on which you're building the tool may be
> different from the machine you want to install it on.

And if you are installing from CVS/tar, this is a "runtime" check, which
I'd prefer not to lose the ability to do.  So, I vote to retain the
checks there.

> Typically in my VMs, I do not have mkisofs, nor perl-CGI for the moment.
> So should I add them to make the build process happy (even if I don't
> think it's the right thing to do, I'll do it if that's the concensus),
> or should I work on a patch to move those checks at run time or/and in
> dependencies either with .spec requires, or the same for deb.
> 
> What is your take on this one ?

I am quite open to clever autoconf-ish ways to turn off those checks for
your use case, though.

> FYI, I have generated a lot of RPMS today, available at
> ftp://ftp.project-builder.org , except that the main one,
> linuxcoe-sd-base is missing :-(

Nice job!

bryang