Fwd: Upstart trunk build problems

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)
<sarvi at cisco.com> wrote:
> Yeah. May be this is just my inexperience.
> I had seen that earlier and verified that gettext package was intalled.
> But didn't realize that we needed gettext-devel package and not just
> gettext.
>
> Sarvi
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Scott James Remnant [mailto:scott at netsplit.com]
>>Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:32 AM
>>To: Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)
>>Cc: upstart-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>>Subject: RE: Upstart trunk build problems
>>Importance: High
>>
>>On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:01 -0700, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) wrote:
>>
>>> Found the problem. I needed the gettext-devel package i just had
>>> gettext only.
>>>
>>> Might be helpfull to add this to the HACKING notes.
>>>
>>HACKING already contains this:
>>
>>The source tree for upstart uses the GNU Build System
>>(sometimes known as the GNU Autotools).  You will need the
>>following versions installed.
>>
>>        * GNU Autoconf 2.61
>>        * GNU Automake 1.10
>>        * GNU Libtool 1.5.22
>>        * GNU Gettext 0.16.1
>>
>>After checking out upstart from Bazaar you will need to use
>>these tools to generate the build files.  The correct way to
>>do this is to simply run 'autoreconf -i' from the top-level
>>source directory.
>>
>>
>>Scott

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is only for Redhat / Debian based
distros. Some other distros [built from source] like Gentoo Linux
don't suffer from this "-devel"-ness, so this is a distro specific
note I think...
-Garrett