On Ubuntu, doing something like apt-get build-dep wine will prevent those kind of user errors.
Really we just need to improve the wiki page a bit rather than bother with extra work on make test. Thanks, Scott Ritchie Jeremy White wrote: > So...turns out that in this flood of new reporting, that one of the errors > only happened to me, and it further turns out to be entirely user error; > I didn't have libxslt. > > So, the obvious first solution is for me to actually read my configure > results and deal with it. > > But I think I serve nicely as an example of the sort of incompetent user > for whom it would still be nice to have make test work cleanly. > > I didn't see any obvious standard way of coping with this situation. > Did I miss it? I imagined that maybe we'd skip these cases, but I didn't > see evidence of that. I could also imagine a facility whereby we note > that the configure was not clean, and then refuse to run make test > (or at least refuse to run the full winetest battery). Should we make > libxslt non optional (or at least require an explicit --without-libxslt > in order to build without it)? > > Cheers, > > Jeremy > >
