On Apr 9, 2013, at 7:49 AM, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: > John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> writes: > >>> Great news. And thanks. I wonder if we need a periodic reset of that >>> directory? >> >> It would be nice if our build machinery could detect updated versions >> of dependencies and automatically build them when found. Jhbuild does >> this, but unfortunately nobody has yet succeeded in getting it to work >> reliably on Win32. > > How does it detect that there's been a new release? In our case we do > want quazi-stable dependencies, in particular on the stable build. We > don't always want to build against the latest-and-greatest because they > could introduce regressions. c.f. the libofx crash we're seeing on > windows.
It doesn't automagically detect new releases, it just recognizes that what's specified in its control file is different from what it built last time. > > I thought we did have code that would rebuild a dependency if we upgrade > it explicitly, but perhaps not? > No, I think it just checks that the dependency is present without a version check. If it's supposed to do more that part is clearly not working. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
