bugmake - Bugs: bug #50492, configure missing / autoconf fails

 
 

bug #50492: configure missing / autoconf fails

Submitted by:  Ted Lyngmo <tedlyngmo>
Submitted on:  Wed 08 Mar 2017 08:06:11 AM UTC  
 
Severity: 3 - NormalItem Group: Build/Install
Status: Not A BugPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOpen/Closed: Closed
Component Version: SCMOperating System: Any
Fixed Release: NoneTriage Status: None

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Wed 08 Mar 2017 03:45:25 PM UTC, comment #2:

Oh, yes, a comment in INSTALL would be great. The Appenix A part in README.git worked like a charm. :-)

Ted Lyngmo <tedlyngmo>
Wed 08 Mar 2017 01:27:23 PM UTC, comment #1:

All of the files you mention are generated files, not source files. Adding generated files to the Git repository only leads to sorrow and madness; since there's enough madness in the world already we don't add to it in this way.

If you want to build from Git the instructions are in the README.git file. This will require you to install a number of extra developer tools on your system first.

The INSTALL file is copied into the distribution tarball and used by people who are building from a release, not from Git. I can add a note to the beginning of that file pointing people to the README.git file if they're building from Git.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
Project Administrator
Wed 08 Mar 2017 08:06:11 AM UTC, original submission:

INSTALL says one should run "./configure" but it's not included when downloading from the git repo. It's included in .gitignore which may explain that.

A lot of files seems to be missing so I ended up having to extract them from the latest packaged release.

Ted Lyngmo <tedlyngmo>

 

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