[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] Ticket #54: mythplugins configure script error

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Mon Jul 4 20:04:14 EDT 2005


Simon Kenyon wrote:

>On Monday 04 July 2005 20:30, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>>MythTV wrote:
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>>>perhaps a more standard configuration system should be used
>>>(autoconf/automake) comes to mind.
>>>      
>>>
>>Perhaps you should set your QTDIR properly?  I compile with the Qt
>>headers in /opt/<qt version>/include just fine.
>>    
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>
>thanks for the response
>at least you gave the bug report more attention than isaac
>the configure script has a routine "has_header"
>which assume a fixed set of header locations
>gentoo installs kde headers somewhere else
>
>now it could be argued that gentoo does the wrong thing
>that might be a valid point of view
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>

It is the valid point view.  There's no point in overly complicating 
things to accommodate every distro out there.

>my suggestion was that the configuration script should be more general
>i suggested automake/autoconf
>  
>
If you'd checked the archives, you'd have known that auomake/autoconf 
isn't going to happen.




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