[PATCH] Don't fail if polkit-policy-file-validate is not found

[Michael Biebl]

2007/12/1, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com>:
> 2007/12/1, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the configure check for polkit-policy-file-validate is not strictly
> > necessary for successully compiling the package. It's only needed if
> > you want to run "make check" or "make distcheck" (and as such mainly
> > interesting for creating the dist tarball).
> > The attached patch makes ./configure not fail, if the tool is not
> > found, but instead print a big warning at the end of the configure
> > run.
>
> Hm, another possibility would be, to not run the checks in
> policy/Makefile.am, when polkit-policy-file-validate is not found (but
> print the warning message instead).
> This way "make (dist)check" would pass, even when
> polkit-policy-file-validate is not installed.

Please find attached a patch for this second approach (which I would prefer).

Cheers,
Michael

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