Re: [QStat-devx] Current CVS how to build?

[Ludwig N. <l-...@us...>]

Steven Hartland wrote:
> Hmm not had to download said tools for building anything else and I
> build almost all things from source which makes me question how
> standard it is?

If you ever had to enter ./configure before make you have used it's
service. You do not need to autoconf/automake installed as long as
you don't modify Makefile.am&friends.

> Not sure how helpful it is not being able to compile from CVS
> without installing additional tools especially as there is no mention
> of it in the docs

Well, that's easy to fix.

> Also just installed autoconf and it still fails:
> ./autogen.sh 
> + which autoreconf
> + autoreconf -i
> Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at 
> /usr/local/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm line 459.
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 16777215
> 
> pkg_info |grep autoc
> autoconf-2.53_1   Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms

You also need automake.

> Seems like a bit to much pain to ask people to go through just to compile
> the CVS version when a 10 line Makefile did the job nicely.

It lacked the useful features I mentioned. Ideally people don't
compile from CVS. We need to do releases more frequently instead.

cu
Ludwig

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