Re: [SyncEvolution] Syncevolution build system conversion
On Mo, 2011-08-29 at 16:33 +0200, Krzesimir Nowak wrote:
2011/8/26 Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly(a)intel.com>:
> The rationale must be that "make dist" is intended to produce the same
> result, always, no matter what the environment or configure options are.
> Just guessing, though.
>
This sounds sensible. Going this path I'd say that there are two solutions:
1. Distribute README.html - that would need README.html to be always
generated and that in fact - a syncevo's dependency on rst2html, that
is - configure would end with an error if there is no rst2html.
2. Don't distribute README.html - then it would be generated if
rst2html existed on system.
Above solutions clearly contradict your conclusion about README.html
being distributed if it can be build.
"intention" instead of "conclusion" is a better word here ;-)
The goal was to have the file around when using source .tar.gz from
syncevolution.org, because those are built in an environment where we
ensure that rst2html is around.
Let's go for option 2. README.packagers must be extended with a hint to
packagers that they now (SyncEvolution >= 1.3) should make rst2html a
build requirement.
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