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

[David Zeuthen]

On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 18:18 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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).

Hmm.. I kinda disagree on this patch. I mean, I wrote the validation
program for a reason. To check for bugs. Maybe if you can explain why a
minimal build environment is more important than correctness I'd be
willing to apply it... (this is not a troll; sorry if it sounds like
like it).

     David