Re: Build problems - any advice

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 09:10 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > It's not that anjuta-2.0.1 uses autogen during building (This would be a
> > bug), it's that anjuta-2.0.1 _unconditionally_ requires autogen, instead
> > of disabling autogen-support if it can't find it.
> 
> By the looks of it, autogen is required by Anjuta 2.0 to perform part of
> the users build system, so it isn't viable to remove it.
Really? ... anjuta had never worked well and had always done a bad job
on using the autotools, but this is worse than I had expected.

> > I'd call this a feature-overladden, semi-cooked package ;)
> 
> Nah, it looks more like corner cutting.
We'll see how far you can proceed ;)

I'd recommend to file a separate Review Request, but I can't say to like
what I see in anjuta so far.

Ralf