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

Pekka Paalanen ppaalanen at gmail.com
Wed May 21 23:18:07 PDT 2014


On Thu, 22 May 2014 08:24:04 +1000
Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:

> > 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.

That is an excellent write-up!


Thanks,
pq


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