Re: gEDA-user: configure script patch

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:19 +0300, Justas Poderys wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu and needed to update geda-gaf, as version in repository
> is older than latest released. Since RFTM'ing is not my strongest side,
> spent an hour or so wondering why configure would fail, even though I
> installed guile-1.8 package. Now it seems trivial that I needed
> guile-1.8-dev. I made a small patch to configure script, that check if
> user is using debian or its' derivative and hint that user might need
> guile dev.

configure is an auto-generated file, so you can't patch it like that.
You would need to add a rule in configure.ac. Actually, configure.ac
pulls in loads of custom macros from the m4 directory. The file you'd
want to patch is probably m4/geda-guile.m4

I'm of mixed feelings about the idea though.. are we going to fix up
every potential configure failure with a list of Debian, Fedora, ...
package names to install?

I think we need to try to be consistent, and adding suggestions for
every possible point of failure could be a lot of work.


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