Re: [PATCH] update DEPENDENCIES for interix

[Markus Duft]

On 05/16/11 16:01, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/16/2011 01:47 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>> From: Markus Duft <address@hidden>
>>
>> Hey!
>>
>> This is a small patch in reply to [1] to update the DEPENDENCIES for interix 
>> accordingly.
>> suacomp 0.6.8 (which is the dependency) is not yet released, but will be 
>> today or tomorrow,
>> so i think thath is not a problem :)
>>
>> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-05/msg00310.html
>>
>> Regards, Markus
>>
>> ---
>>  ChangeLog    |    6 ++++++
>>  DEPENDENCIES |    7 +++++++
>>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
>> index c2a67da..e487d21 100644
>> --- a/ChangeLog
>> +++ b/ChangeLog
>> @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
>> +2011-05-16  Markus Duft  <address@hidden>
>> +
>> +    update dependencies for interix (SUA).
>> +    * DEPENDENCIES: add mandatory dependency to suacomp >= 0.6.8 on
>> +    interix (only!).
> 
> Hmm, is it also worth teaching gnulib-common.m4 to do a $host_os check
> and make configure fail on interix if suacomp is not present on the
> user's machine?

hm - that's a good idea actually... because: if it is _not_ there, things
will most probably still compile, but introduce hard-to-find issues (like
tar producing files with wrong timestamps, and then make triggering autoconf, 
etc.,
maybe breaking builds as prerequisites for bootstrapping of those packages
are not there... wow - was that sentence meaningfull...? ;))

whatever - i will have a look at putting it all together and introduce that
check the next days....

thanks :)
markus

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