Re: [Gnash-dev] rc2 status

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:35:09PM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote:
> Patrice Dumas writes:
>  > The solution I propose is to select SUBDIRS in testsuite based on what
>  > is available instead of skipping large parts of Makefile.am. This allows
>  > to have make dist works correctly.
> 
> I'm not sure that this patch correctly fixes the problem.  It appears
> to me as if whoever does ''make dist'' has to have every optional
> thing installed, otherwise the distribution will be missing files.
> That's reasonable.

No, that's not reasonable ;-). make dist should work in any case because it
packages source files and source files can always be there. Admitedly
there are also generated files that are shipped, because the maintainer
is supposed to have the possibility to generate them, but in that case
all the files leading to that particular generated file should be
shipped such that they are not even rebuilt if the user didn't changed
them, and they should only be removed by make maintainer-clean.

> But the missing files have pointed to a bug.  I think I have ming
> installed, but this is configure's output:
>         MING version code is 
>         MING flags are 
>         MING libs are -lming
>         MAKESWF is 
> So, either I don't really have ming installed, or there's a bug in
> configure.ac.

You also have to have the ming library installed.

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Pat