Mark Hindess wrote:
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.
Thanks for doing that Mark.
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. ;-)
Not if I get there first - thanks for the link ;)
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.
Yes, agreed - we should use the system libraries where possible as a
first choice, and
supply instructions for getting the required packages for those who
havnt already got
them. For OSes that do not distribute these libraries, we should provide
precompiled
binaries where possible, or at least some instructions on where to go
get them.
Regards,
Oliver
Regards,
Mark.
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