[gst-devel] automatic build

[Andy Wingo]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> * should make distcheck be run in the chroot ?

yes, because that finds a lot of our stupid automake issues

>   Two issues : 
>   a) then I need to bring in some of the doc tools as well

no big deal, no?

>   b) it seems that, when doing this on a clean system, the tests will
>      complain about a missing register and fail.  How do we solve this ?
>      1) run gst-register before a make distcheck (not a good idea imo)
>      2) find a way to make tests run without a registry or a temp registry ?

i think they should be run with the --gst-plugin-load argument, or
running the tests should depend on a phony target of running -register.

> * what sets of prereq's do we want to work with ?
>   * stock rh72/rh72 + errata/rh72 with ximian
>   * with and without libxml
>   * standard build tools (if from tarball) vs cutting edge build tools

i'm fine with just one setup, or maybe have with and without libxml as
an option but not do both every night...

that's right good work you're doing over there :)

wingo.