Hi Chuck, Den 2010-09-19 21:58 skrev Charles Wilson: > Autobuild is a package that process output from building software, > primarily focused on packages using Autoconf and Automake, and then > generate a HTML summary file, containing links to each build log. The > output include project name, version, build host types (cross compile > aware), compiler host name, date of build, and indication of success or > failure. The output is indexed in many ways to simplify browsing. > > autobuild is a build-time requirement of the upcoming libtool-2.4 > release (but not of packages that merely USE libtool, even if you > autoreconf them). I'm not sure whether it is included in any linux > distributions or not; I get too many hits when searching for > 'autobuild'...so, I probably need some votes. However, given that it is > a new build requirement of libtool, I imagine that the distros will be > forced to add it eventually.
But is it really a requirement? If you are referring to libtool commit v2.2.10-92-g92d24b3, then that patch adds an /optional/ dependency on autobuild. If you are a maintainer doing a release of libtool, it probably is a requirement, but are you not simply building the released version (perhaps with a few patches)? I know that I certainly have built git libtool many times when working on it, and I do not have autobuild installed. That said, +1 if votes are needed. Cheers, Peter
