Re: [Valgrind-users] compile error

[Bob R. <bob...@co...>]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 02:36:39PM +0100, Julian Seward wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 05 October 2006 14:21, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 02:05:33PM +0100, Julian Seward wrote:
> > > > priv/main/vex_svnversion.h:1:1: missing terminating " character
> > > > priv/main/vex_svnversion.h:1:1: warning: no newline at end of file
> > >
> > > (cd VEX && make version) && make
> >
> > Apparently you can't build valgrind if subversion is not on your path.
> > Is this a known issue?
> 
> The deal is: if you are building from an svn checkout then you
> are assumed to be a developer and so you need svn, svnversion, 
> automake, autoconf to be available, not to mention tons of ugly
> XML toolchain gunk if you want to build the documentation.
> 
> If you are building from a tarball you are assumed to be an end-user
> and none of those things are required for the build; everything 
> needed is baked into the tarball at tarball-creation ("make dist")
> time.

OK, that's fair enough. I happened to check out valgrind like
 PATH=/home/TOOLS/subversion/bin:$PATH svn co ...
and then make failed. It might be helpful to have a configure
check to make sure the svn tools required are on the path. However, it's
just a suggestion, and understand if no one wants to do that ...

Bob Rossi