[PATCH wayland-web] Added depencies and bug fixes to build instructions

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Wed May 21 15:24:04 PDT 2014


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 07:58:59AM -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> Fedora has this built-in:
> 
>   # yum install 'pkgconfig(laalaa.pc)'
> 
> And that becomes a pretty generic guide on "How
> to build software", so if there is a site which already explains all
> these basics, we can link to it, but I don't think we should write that
> guide on the Wayland site.
> 
> If the user is not familiar in general on building software manually
> from source, then he should be looking for pre-packaged Wayland and
> Weston for his particular distribution.
> 
> There is one reason to have a more thorough guide though: end users
> reporting bugs, who are then asked to test a patch or the latest git
> version. But every project out there has this problem, surely someone
> has written a relatively generic guide?

An attempt:
http://who-t.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/configure-fails-with-no-package-foo.html
happy to fix it up where needed.

Cheers,
   Peter



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