Re: source builds vs. RPMs

2010-06-05 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Richard, Richard Jones wrote: > > Where does the thinking come from that "there must be only one instance > > of every package"? > ... > My experience of the goodness of packaging systems comes from my use > of OSes like Minix and FreeBSD which don't have good (or any) > packaging systems, and

Re: ‘libunistring’ module errors

2010-06-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible writes: > 2010-06-03 Bruno Haible > > Choose among AC_DEFUN_ONCE, AC_DEFUN in a way that aclocal understands. > * m4/iconv.m4 (gl_iconv_AC_DEFUN): New macro. > (AM_ICONV): Define it through gl_iconv_AC_DEFUN. > * m4/libunistring.m4 (gl_libunistri

Re: source builds vs. RPMs

2010-06-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday, June 05, 2010 07:52:45 Bruno Haible wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > packages install way too much cruft that changes over versions to sanely > > track without a PM, and `make uninstall` is way too inconsistent and > > "helpful" to even think about trusting. > > The solution to this