On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Rob Sciuk <r...@controlq.com> wrote: > > I note with interest the source download now (recently?) deprecates the > configure/make build of SQLite 3.6.x sources. What gives?? I've been > configure/make(ing) SQLite since, forever, and the only problems I ever > encountered were omitting options that I needed, and quickly sorted out! > > How does one actually obtain the "amalgamation", if not by using the > configure/make scripts, complete with lemon and friends?? > > from the web site: > > "A tarball of the complete source tree for SQLite version 3.6.13 > as extracted from the version control system. The Makefile and > configure > script in this tarball are not supported. Their use is not recommended. > The SQLite developers do not use them. You should not use them either. > If > you want a configure script and an automated build, use either the > amalgamation tarball or TEA tarball instead of this one. To build from > this tarball, hand-edit one of the template Makefiles in the root > directory of the tarball and build using your own customized > Makefile." > > Perhaps this is just me, but it seems a retrograde approach from a > Unix/Linux developer perspective ...
Not necessarily. I think it is more like a gentle nudge from the developers to make us use the amalgamation instead of the separate bits and bobs. The amalgamation has always been available standalone with its associated Makefile. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/ Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org/ Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ Science Commons Fellow, Geospatial Data http://sciencecommons.org Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- collaborate, communicate, compete ======================================================================= Sent from Madison, WI, United States _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
