[Buildroot] ParaGUI package?

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 08/01/14 04:34, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Hartley Sweeten,
>
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 00:10:29 +0000, Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to find a simple GUI library that can be used with SDL and this one appears
>> to cover my needs. Unfortunately the ParaGUI library appears to be a bit dead. The
>> latest release at http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/paragui/ is
>>
>> paragui-1.1.8.tar.gz	19-Oct-2004
>>
>> I found a newer branch on https://github.com/pipelka/paragui that appears to be
>> version 1.1.11.
>
> My first reaction is: do you really want to start using something that
> appears to be dead/deprecated?
>
>> Makefile.am: error: required file './NEWS' not found
>> Makefile.am: error: required file './ChangeLog' not found
>
> These seems to be the real problems. Easiest solution is to add a post
> patch hook with "touch $(@D)/NEWS $(@D)/ChangeLog"

  Actually, perhaps we should always to this when PKG_AUTORECONF is YES? 
There are quite a lot of packages that have this touch trick.

  Regards,
  Arnout

>
> A cleaner solution is to add the "foreign" option in the
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE call in configure.in, like:
>
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10 no-define foreign])
>
> Thomas
>


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