Re: v4l-utils migrated to autotools

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

Em 18-01-2012 10:47, Gregor Jasny escreveu:
> On 1/18/12 1:19 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> It would be nice to write at the INSTALL what dependencies are needed for
>> the autotools to work, or, alternatively, to commit the files generated
>> by the autoreconf -vfi magic spell there [1].
> 
> The end user gets a tarball created with "make dist" which contains all the m4 files.

Ah, ok. It probably makes sense then to add some scripting at the server to do
a daily build, as the tarballs aren't updated very often. They're updated only
at the sub-releases:
	http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-utils/

> For the developers I will list the dependencies (autotools-dev, pkgconfig and libtool) explicitely.

Ok, thanks!

>> Not sure if it is possible, but it would be great if the build output
>> would be less verbose. libtool adds a lot of additional (generally useless)
>> messages, with makes harder to see the compilation warnings in the
>> middle of all those garbage.
> 
> I will add the AM_SILENT_RULES option later.

Just added it, and fixed two warnings I was not able to notice before, due to
the excess of fast-scrolling messages that were appearing when compiling it
here ;)

Thanks,
Mauro