[ptx] automake/autconf and hugin

[David Grant]

douglas wilkins wrote:

> --- David Grant <david.grant at telus.net> wrote: 
>  
>
>>In the gentoo ebuild for hugin, we run:
>>
>>    aclocal -I m4
>>    automake --gnu Makefile
>>    autoconf
>>    libtoolize -c -f
>>
>>followed by ./configure + options, make, make
>>install + options
>>
>>Is this necessary? And if it is necessary, can this
>>be done upstream 
>>rather than by the distro? On most packages this is
>>never required. Only 
>>./configure, make, make install
>>    
>>
>
>If you are getting the code from CVS, then yes, it is
>neccessary. Only code which cannot be generated
>automatically is stored there. There is a script
>(bootstrap) which checks for required versions of
>software and then runs all the commands above along
>with others. It is unfortunately not suitable for an
>automatic build as human intervention is required at
>one point.
>
>If, on the other hand, you use the tarball from
>sourceforge (latest is hugin-0.5-beta2.tar.bz2) then
>you should be able to just run configure / make / make
>install.
>
>
>  
>
Hmmm, ok, this makes sense I think the other previous 0.4* ebuild was 
getting a CVS snapshot, so maybe that was why... The new one uses 
0.5_beta2 so I guess it doesn't need it like you said. Thanks.

-- 
David J. Grant
http://www.davidgrant.ca:81

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