[PATCH modular] jhbuild: Add moduleset with tarballs used for 7.6 katamari

Gaetan Nadon memsize at videotron.ca
Thu Nov 25 17:16:49 PST 2010


On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 14:51 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:

> jhbuild is designed primarily to operate with development checkouts,
> and thus usually runs autogen.sh. It's operating on the assumption
> that you might update your checkout and need to regenerate the
> autotools. It's just a bug in the jhbuild code that it doesn't prefer
> configure for tarballs. I looked at it and it seems that the
> information to know that the source directory came from a tarball is
> not available when it comes time to determine which script to run.
> Probably need to open a bug on gnome.org.
> 

Actually what jhbuild does make sense. They are relying on the
presence/absence
of this script to support both git/tarball builds. This is a widely
adopted convention.
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