> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> > To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:52:30 +0200 > Subject: Re: r20585 - gnucash/trunk - Replace guile configure check by > PKG_CHECK_MODULE so that it also works in cross-compiling. > On vrijdag 22 april 2011, Christian Stimming wrote: >> Author: cstim >> Date: 2011-04-22 15:43:39 -0400 (Fri, 22 Apr 2011) >> New Revision: 20585 >> Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/20585 >> >> Removed: >> gnucash/trunk/macros/gnome-guile-checks.m4 >> Modified: >> gnucash/trunk/Makefile.am >> gnucash/trunk/configure.ac >> Log: >> Replace guile configure check by PKG_CHECK_MODULE so that it also works in >> cross-compiling. >> > After this commit I couldn't build gnucash anymore on linux. It turns out that > pkgcheck adds a library dependency (-lltdl) that was not there in the guile > configure code before. > > It's not a big deal in itself, I quickly figured out I had to install > libtool-ltdl-devel on my Fedora system to get it to build again. >
I too couldn't build on Fedora after this change until I saw this comment by Geert and installed libtool-ltdl-devel. > I'm just bringing it up because I think it would be good to mention this in > the build dependencies. I'm just not sure what is the most up to date piece of > documentation we have for that. There's a README.dependencies in the src > directory, but that looks horribly out of date. So is there another place we > document build dependencies ? > Shouldn't /.configure be changed to check for the presence of this library? Unless I'm mistaken, it seems to check for most, if not all, of the others? > Other than that, I'm very happy with this change. It clearly simplifies and > normalizes the configure code. Yay ! > > Geert > > -- > Kobalt W.I.T. > Web & Information Technology > Brusselsesteenweg 152 > 1850 Grimbergen > > Tel : +32 479 339 655 > Email: i...@kobaltwit.be > > Alex _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
