27 Dec
2011
27 Dec
'11
4:33 a.m.
Darrell Anderson wrote:
With reference to Trinity. :) For example, building kprinter is
useless unless cups is installed. Many distro maintainers no longer
build poppler with Qt3 support. Amarok breaks unless ruby is
installed while building. Etc. No need to get carried away with this
list. :)
That's true, but if you are going to publish build instructions for
every package, you need to specify your base system. I don't follow
what other distros are doing, but ubuntu, for instance, doesn't
distribute gtk1 apps like ghostview and xmms by default any more.
It's almost a Catch-22. You need a lot of prerequisites to build
Trinity, so you use a distro like Debian or Ubuntu to get them. If you
do that, why build from source and not just get the binaries for Trinity
the same way?
It also gets really complicated. Why is ghostview needed? The answer
of course is kghostview, but you don't need to build that. You either
need to say that app X needs prerequisite Y or say that Trinity needs
prerequisites Y1, Y2, ... Yn. The second way will not help a lot of users.
-- Bruce
Trinity Package Build Requirements
===================================== Common Expected System
Dependencies ===================================== cups pcre
libxml2 libxslt dbus-python libpng poppler rebuilt with Qt3
support ruby wv2
This is really tricky if you want to be complete. What about
xorg,
gcc, binutils, and make? What assumptions are you making?
Also gtk+1, ghostview, doxygen...
It's really quite non-trivial.