gEDA-dev: Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap docs build failure on FC5 (and other places)

[Stuart Brorson]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Peter TB Brett wrote:

> On Sunday 30 July 2006 14:54, Stuart Brorson wrote:
>
>> As for the person who made the point that the problem was an autoconf
>> issue:  If you would care to actually do some work and send a patch to
>> fix the configure.ac file instead of proferring cheap advice, then I'd
>> stand up and take notice.   Otherwise, you're just blowing easy
>> advice out your @ss.  Tweaking the autotools so that they do the right
>> thing in every case is a difficult job.  You'd know that if you tried
>> to do some real implementation.
>
> I think that the problem is that the latest release of gnucap (0.31?) doesn't
> even use autoconf/automake.  The calls to latex are hardcoded into the
> Makefiles.
>
> Unless I've got the wrong version of the gnucap source code here (from
> ftp.gnu.org)...
>
> Peter

LOL!  You've just proven my point!  Just knowing which version of
which package is the most recent is beyond the ken of even a Linux
power user!    *chuckle*

If you can't figure it out, how can the ordinary user?

I track the gEDA releases and keep the current stuff on the CD.  The
vision is One easy download with no worrying about what is the latest
package, what dependencies are required, and so on.  If somebody else
wants to do that work and has a better scheme to make it happen, I'll
gladly step aside, or at least make room for their efforts.

But it's not enough to offer opinions on the mailing list.  It's
actually getting the work done which is of essence.

Stuart