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On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Michael Brown wrote:
[compiling Cooker from scratch, installing only the BuildRequires
packages as needed]
>>But, the main problem is that the BuildRequires aren't accurate at the
>>moment in cooker. Without the correct BuilRequires you're going to
>>encounter many compile problems. I'm working on fixing them at the
>>moment, but There are still +/- 380 packages that aren't compiling....
>
>How are you detecting problems caused by 'non-fatal' missing
>BuildRequires? As an example: the recent missing requirement for
>libbzip2_1-devel and libtiff3-devel in kdelibs. If these are not
>installed then the package will be built without support for the relevant
>components, but no errors will be flagged.
This is really a flaw in the GNU configure mechanism. It would be nice
if autoconf's configure scripts allowed you to say:
% ./configure --definitely-use-libtiff
which would die if the library were not available, rather than quietly
leaving out that functionality as at present.
At least, I don't think there is currently a way to specify this -
anyone know otherwise?
- --
Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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