Re: Build dependancies

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 21:39 +0000, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
> git://git.gnome.org/glom does understandably not contain a ./configure 
> script.

Yes, because that's generated.

>  It should however contain a list of both build- and runtime 
> dependencies, preferably in README, INSTALL or BUILD.
>
> Unspecified build time dependencies include:
>   •GNU Autoconf
>   •libtool
>   •intltool
>
> Or are these implied by the GNOME label?

These are generally implied by the use of autotools.

However, building from git is generally difficult. That's why, like
other autotools-based projects, we provide release tarballs that contain
the generated files, so you don't need to have all these tools
installed.

INSTALL is one of those generated files. It gives generic instructions
about how to build autotools-based projects.

>  There should at least be some 
> pointer to documentation of the building procedure. Thankfully, library 
> dependencies are specified if only in configure.ac.

There are some hints under "Required Libraries" here, but only what
configure asks for is really 100% up to date.
http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Download

However, unless you really want to work with the source code, you should
really try to use the version that's already built for your Linux
distribution.

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Murray Cumming
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