[Gambas-user] Autoconf tools question

[Laurent Carlier]

Le Thursday 28 August 2008 16:21:00 M0E Lnx, vous avez écrit :
> Any way to test this in gambas2 yet?
>
> my app is written in g2
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Laurent Carlier <lordheavym at ...626...> 
wrote:
> > Le Wednesday 27 August 2008 14:54:07 M0E Lnx, vous avez écrit :
> >> I'm willing to test (pretty much all I can do) but I do appreciate you
> >> guys considering it. I suposse many people will write their
> >> appliactions in gambas and will need to depend on something else... so
> >> it'll help to have it run checks for those dependancies as well. Even
> >> if it means specifying them by name (each developer should know what
> >> his/her app depends on)
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Laurent Carlier <lordheavym at ...626...>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> > Le Wednesday 27 August 2008 10:45:13 Benoit Minisini, vous avez écrit :
> >> >> On mardi 19 août 2008, M0E Lnx wrote:
> >> >> > I've gotten my application to package with the autoconf tools
> >> >> > creator from the IDE (very nice (in version 2.8 the DESTDIR is
> >> >> > supported)). I have a question
> >> >> > How can I make these scripts run additional tests?.
> >> >> > My application for instance uses other things such as Python,
> >> >> > CMake... etc, how can I make the configure script check for these
> >> >> > too?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Any help is appreciated
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks
> >
> > You can find some preliminary work on the 3.0 branch.
> >
> > You can add extra tests (you need to know how configure script work (see
> > autoconf.automake docs)). Your script will be add at the end of the
> > configure script.
> >
> > See http://gambas.svn.sourceforge.net/gambas/?rev=1520&view=rev
> >
> > ++
> >

I can put this in stable branch if benoit agrees, but as it's pretty untested, 
i prefer if you can test this feature i.e. install G3, just create a dummy 
project, then create a package with autotools, and add your test !

So you axtract the dummy package and run ./configure script. 

Try all these steps, so send your comments, feature missing, the bugs found. 
If it's pretty bugfree and useful them it will be backported for the next 2.x 
release.

Regards,