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

[Thierry Reding]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 09:35:23AM -0700, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> On 05/21/2014 03:09 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:54:36PM -0700, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> >>On 05/21/2014 02:16 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >>
> >>>While I agree with the other points, I think it's perfectly consistent
> >>>for --version to output the version of pkg-config itself. There's
> >>>--modversion if you want to query the version of a given package.
> >>
> >>It's fine that "pkg-config --version" prints the version of pkg-config.
> >>
> >>My complaint is that "pkg-config --version xyz" does the exact same thing,
> >>completely ignoring the "xyz"!
> >
> >Even that is completely consistent. I've tried a number of binaries on
> >my system and they all behave in exactly the same way. gcc, ar, gdb, ld,
> >libtool and even chromium ignore anything that follows --version.
> 
> That's exactly the bogus excuse I expect to get to dismiss my bug report,
> thanks.
> 
> That is however bulls**t. The computer is our slave, not the other way
> around. Doing exactly what nobody in their right mind would expect is not
> being helpful, no matter how "logical" it is.

Evidently I must not be in my right mind then.

> All I want is an error that says "you probably wanted to use --modversion".
> If other gnu software acts like you say (gcc does not) they should be fixed
> to complain about the unnecessary extra arguments.

Right, gcc does indeed actually complain about any additional argument,
although not if they are files that actually exist, in which case it
will still simply ignore them.

Thierry
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