On Jan 18, 2008 9:09 AM, Bryce Harrington <
bryce@...961...> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:03:12AM -0600, Aaron Spike wrote:
> Guillermo Espertino wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile r17131 and have problems with tar-pax
> > I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy and it compiled correctly before 17091. Since
> > that I couldn't compile anymore.
> > First I had automake 1.9, but I didn't even start (it asked for other
> > version of automake). I removed 1.9 and installed 1.8.5 and it
> > apparently started, but it returned this when running
autogen.sh:
> >
> <snip />
> > If I try to run make clean before running autogen.sh, it complains about
> > tar-pax too.
> > Any advise to workaround this?
>
> Would it be possible to only inform/require tar-pax for making of the
> tarball? So very few people make a tarball. It is a pain for others to
> have to make updates to their system just to run autogen.sh when they
> don't need the tar-pax capability. If we could move the check to `make
> dist` there would probably be less grief and fewer questions.
Agreed. While this tar-pax change seemed like a good idea, it appears
to be forcing non-obvious build problems on folks.
Bryce