From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:56687 "EHLO mail-wi0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757322Ab2ARNCF (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:02:05 -0500 Received: by wibhm6 with SMTP id hm6so2170334wib.19 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:02:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F16C2CA.2090401@googlemail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:02:02 +0100 From: Gregor Jasny MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: v4l-utils migrated to autotools References: <4F134701.9000105@googlemail.com> <4F16B8CC.3010503@redhat.com> <4F16BF4D.4070404@googlemail.com> <4F16C11F.3040108@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4F16C11F.3040108@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@canuck.infradead.org Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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