Re: [ gpsdrive ] `remove-potcdate.sed', needed by `gpsdrive.pot-update'

["Charles Curley" <charles.curley@gmail.com>]

On 1/1/07, Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)
<gpsdrive@ostertag.name> wrote:
> On Monday 01 January 2007 20:31, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On 1/1/07, Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)
> >

> > > Is there a chance to update your automake + gettext to a newer version on
> > > your system?
> >
> > I probably could, but I'd like to be able to build both source and
> > executable RPMs that one could build on any recent Fedora Core system.
> >
> > Eventually, I'l like to get gpsdrive into shape to add it to Fedora
> > Extras.
>
> The problem might be, that the next debian release(etch) will have these
> versions installed. So we need a good plan to cope with those 2 different
> Versions of gettext and automake.
>

Hmmm. The plan is to release Fedora Core 7 in late April
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Core/Schedule for the gory
details). But I haven't found out if they will move to the more recent
versions of the tool chain. At this point, I doubt that the Fedora
Powers That Be know.

More generally, I don't like the idea of a program being tied to the
latest and greatest tool chain to the exclusion of older
versions. Folks on older distributions should be able to compile a
program. This is especially so in poorer countries where Linux is the
only OS many folks can afford, and run old versions so they can use
older hardware. Similarly for applications. It would be nice to know
whether gpsdrive will compile on Ubuntu, Slackware and others.

Perhaps the solution is to move to cmake? If I recall the discussion
on this list correctly, apparently one of the things that cmake will
do is make all this auto* stuff irrelevant. I have cmake 2.4.5
available for FC6. However, the discussion in November indicated that
cmake was not yet ready on OSX.


>
>
> > > > On the other tentacle, if you do check them in, I can start my build
> > > > with ./configure instead of the automake stuff.
> > >
> > > This might even be a reason to add the Makefile. This way the
> > > configure would also run automagically. But I think this would be
> > > too much.
> >
> > There are a lot of make files to check in.
>
> I think the main makefile might be enough.

Ah. In fact it would be sufficient if the absence of the others would
force ./configure to run. I have not tested this.

>
> > > > I just did a fresh checkout and tried that. I got all the way to:
> > > >
> > > > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ccurley/src/gpsdrive/trunk/po'
> > > > touch stamp-po
> > > > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `remove-potcdate.sin', needed by
> > >
> > > What is the make target you're calling?
> >
> > dist-bzip2
> >
> > What target do you use for your daily tarballs?
>
> dist-gzip

Same thing. But no surprise, as both depend on distdir and only
provide compression after distdir has made the tarball.

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