Re: [Bug-wget] Re: Steven Schweda's VMS patch in mainline

[Micah Cowan]

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Micah Cowan wrote:
> Steven M. Schweda wrote:
>>>  You can get the sources at
>>> http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/mainline; the best way to get it is via
>>> Mercurial, but you can also download the source tree from that link by
>>> choosing one of the "zip", "gz" or "bz2" links to get a dynamically
>>> generated source tree.
>>    I tried that.  Not entirely satisfactory.  I had a Solaris system up,
>> so I tried building it there.  I see that one now needs much more of a
>> GNU environment to get a build done, which is dismaying to someone who'd
>> prefer not to have to support that whole monster.
> 
> What more GNU environment do you need now, that you didn't before?
> Development sources have always required automake/autoconf setups,
> that's not new. I guess you wrote the patch against the released 1.11
> sources, so you may not have had to deal with that then, but...

On reconsideration, I recalled we weren't using automake before, so
that's new... sorry :)

Neither autoconf nor automake will be required to build published
sources, of course... I've been playing with the thought of automated
distro-packaging for dev sources, so people can try out the development
sources without having to install the extra GNU stuff... of course,
actually developing on the sources will still require them, if one has
to modify the build environment itself...

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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