Re: Another XSLT Plugin / Makefile problem?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Thu, Jun 27, 2002, à 12:10:35PM +0100, Andrew Ferrier a écrit:
> 
>> OK. Have to admit I was being a bit selfish in that I have yet
>> to run 'make dist' successfully --- just wanted to see what it
>> did! Maybe I should figure out how to check out 0.90 Gold from
>> anon. CVS...
> 
> Something like
> 	cvs co -r DIA_0_90 dia  
> 
>> That said, yes, if nobody ever runs it, problems won't get
>> noticed...
> 
> That's very true. It is valuable to know that there are "make dist"
> problems; however, it is important as well to know that the problem is in
> the dist part of the makefiles, as opposed to the simple "build" part.
> 
> I noticed mat's comment on automake1.5; also, I noticed that sid includes
> automake1.5 and automake 1.6. 
> 
> Lars: we have to decide something:
> 	- we figure out how the old app/Makefile.am did to have a
> 	conditional gnome-print renderer without tripping up "make dist"

This is what we want.  AFAIR, we need to define XSLT_LIBS, XSLT_PLUGIN etc
depending on the --enable. 

> 	or
> 
> 	- we include libxslt unconditionally

Not good.  We would at least want to stabilize the plugin and see if it's
something that many people want.  

> 	or 
> 	
> 	- we mandate automake 1.5 or more.

Not until those 'issues' are sorted out.

Funny thing is, I got that error message on both my machines when the XSLT
plugin arrived without using make dist, but I just did a second make and it
was happy.  I am using automake 1.4.

-Lars

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