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

Bill Spitzak spitzak at gmail.com
Thu May 22 08:54:24 PDT 2014


On 05/21/2014 03:24 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 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
>

Looks really good to me!



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