On May 7, 2015 5:03 PM, "Joe" <<a href="mailto:joe.on.list@gmail.com">joe.on.list@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > On Thursday 07 May 2015 12:28:22 Aleksander Morgado wrote: > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Joe <<a href="mailto:joe.on.list@gmail.com">joe.on.list@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > > > > Ok, I've done... after created my local libmbim dir: > > > > > > git clone git://<a href="http://anongit.freedesktop.org/libmbim/libmbim">anongit.freedesktop.org/libmbim/libmbim</a> > > > > > However I was'nt able to obtain a tarball like those in stable repo... > > > <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libmbim/">http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libmbim/</a> > > > > > > How have you create them starting from git branch? Could you let me know? > > > > I usually do this: > > > > $ .NOCONFIGURE=1 /autogen.sh > > $ ./configure > > $ make > > $ make distcheck > > > > The distcheck phase will run tests and if all goes well, create a tarball. > > > > > > I've tried to follow your instructions, but ther are some little troubles: > > $ NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh > $ ./configure > $ make > > 1- make command seems to generate empty manpages for: > mbimcli.1 > mbim-network.1 > --- > > Anyway, let's go on: > > $ make distcheck > > 2- but it returns an error: > > make[4]: Entering directory > `/root/build/git/libmbim/docs/reference/libmbim-glib' > *** gtk-doc must be installed and enabled in order to make dist > --- > > this error is solved adding "--enable-gtk-doc" at configure time. > > So we finally have: > > $ NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh > $ ./configure --enable-gtk-doc > $ make > $ make distcheck > > And we obtain a tarball "tar.xz". > But it doesn't contains manpages for mbimcli and mbim-network, > in fact there are but empty... > > Where's the mistake? > Ah, true about the gtk-doc thing, I forgot about that. For man pages you need to have help2man installed (iirc). We should make this a hard dep when building a dist tarball, as with gtk-doc. > > > > > > > But why not to add two otpions more to mbimcli, something like: > > > > > > --configure-net-interface > > > > > > --use-peer-dns (if one want to overwrite his resolv.conf...) > > > > > > And automagically obtain our interface up and configured with > > > our IP and our routing table properly setted to use our new wwan. > > > > > > I think it is a good chioce to let the user pass those options > > > instead of introduce this feature by default, because one is free > > > to use DHCP if prefers and if is his dongle supports it. > > > > > > What do you think about? > > > > That is a good thing, yes. I've been meaning to do this already in > > e.g. mbim-network, but doing it via mbimcli for the static IP config > > would also be a good thing I guess. > > > > > Please to read you agree! > Hope my simple user hints could be help you developers somehow! :) > > _______________________________________________ > libmbim-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:libmbim-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">libmbim-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libmbim-devel">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libmbim-devel</a>