On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 22:23 -0400, Allan Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 21:27, Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Rather than maintain a version for each distribution, I hope to just
> > write macros that output pre-installation scripts.
>
>
> Sounds more like when you make a plugin
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 21:27, Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 15:07 +0100, Richard Ash wrote:
> > > Such a look up table would be priceless, I think :) I have had zero
> luck
> > > in finding one.
> >
> > A compiled table would be large, cumbersome and
Hi Richard,
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 15:07 +0100, Richard Ash wrote:
> > Such a look up table would be priceless, I think :) I have had zero luck
> > in finding one.
>
> A compiled table would be large, cumbersome and perennially out of date.
> What you could do would be to associate each library wi
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 19:04 +0800, Tim Post wrote:
> > No, but I do know that going the other way round, i.e., from distro
> > packaging tools like rpm or apt, to building sources already works very
> > nicely. For example "apt-get source ..." or "apt-get build-dep ...".
>
> That's what I'm tryin
Hi Ralf,
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 12:46 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> How would that work? On this system I'm sitting at, you'd have to be
> super user to install, and while I may be in charge, I'm certainly not
> going to hand out the password to your configure script; neither will I
> compile so
Hello Tim,
* Tim Post wrote on Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:38:50AM CEST:
>
> I am trying to create a ./configure that prompts the use to auto install
> packages that may be missing in order to complete the build.
>
> For instance:
>
> checking for main in libfoo [no]
> libfoo is missing, would you
Hello autoconfers.
I am trying to create a ./configure that prompts the use to auto install
packages that may be missing in order to complete the build.
For instance:
checking for main in libfoo [no]
libfoo is missing, would you like to install it? [Y/n]
In order to be completely distro agnosti
