Re: v4l-utils migrated to autotools

[Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com>]

On 1/18/12 1:54 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> 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/

Judging from the upside-down reports: not the lack of a buildable 
tarball but the lack of updated distribution packages is a problem. For 
Ubuntu we have a PPA repository with nightly builds:

https://launchpad.net/~libv4l/+archive/development

Do you have similar infrastructure for Fedora / RedHat, too?

Thanks,
Gregor