On 11 October 2006 at 3:14, Gregory Shimansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 09 October 2006 19:54 Oliver Deakin wrote: > > I see that you already said pretty much the same thing I did on another > > thread [1]. > > > > IMHO we should make sure that if the fetch-depends target finds it > > cannot sym > > link to preinstalled system libraries, then the user is clearly informed > > so they have > > the choice to install them without having the archived file versions > > unpacked. So > > perhaps the fetch-depends step should still fail with a message saying > > something like > > "Could not resolve these dependencies, either build/install these > > packages manually > > or you can run this other target to have the archived versions unpacked > > into your > > dependency tree". (Hopefully a little clearer than that ;) ) > > This sounds very much like a configure script.
Indeed, and we may well end up with one of those at some point. > Check for installed libraries, fail if something is missing. I like it :) I would like to be more helpful if we can. Yesterday, I added the details of the required packages for Fedora Core 5. Hopefully others will help get the instructions up dated for distributions they use. Otherwise, I will try to add instructions for recent SLES and RHEL in the next week or so. > On Linux however all libraries are present in distributions (I buy you > a beer if you name a single Linux distribution which doesn't include > necessary development packages, knoppix not counted). I'll get my better half to start making more room in the fridge while I go through the list of distros at: http://lwn.net/Distributions/ I reckon I should get at least a six-pack just out of the embedded section alone. ;-) > Only Windows distribution doesn't include them, so for convenience > windows binaries may be cached for download on harmony site. In time I expect we'll do the same for others like MacOS X, Aix, etc. Regards, Mark. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
