From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080129 Iceweasel/2.0.0.12 (Debian-2.0.0.12-2) Description of problem: Missing file in autogen/autogen-devel. ls $(autoopts-config libsrc) ls: cannot access /usr/share/autogen/libopts-31.0.6.tar.gz: No such file or directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): autogen-libopts-devel-5.9.4-4.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.ls $(autoopts-config libsrc) 2. 3. Actual Results: ls: cannot access /usr/share/autogen/libopts-31.0.6.tar.gz: No such file or directory Expected Results: ls $(autoopts-config libsrc) /usr/share/autogen/libopts-31.0.6.tar.gz Additional info:
Sorry for such a late response. Since the libopts library is distributed in binary form as part of the autogen-libopts package, is it important for you to have the source tarball?
Ping?
Sorry, I have overseen your response: To integrate libopts in a project the "safest" way is IMHO to include the libopts source. Linking against the distributed binary is almost fine on fedora, but can course serious trouble (segfaults). Therefor I have taken to ship the libopts source in my projects and to update this source via my "autogen.sh" scripts in development cycle.
(In reply to comment #3) > Sorry, I have overseen your response: No problem. :-) > To integrate libopts in a project the "safest" way is IMHO to include the > libopts source. Linking against the distributed binary is almost fine on > fedora, but can course serious trouble (segfaults). Can you please elaborate a bit? Bundling a separate version of a library with an application is usually looked down upon for various reasons. eg., a fix against the library has to be applied not once, but as many copies that have come bundled with the applications. I would like to see if we can solve the "problems" that you have run into.
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Benedikt, ping?
I am inclined to mark this as CLOSED now due to lack of response. Please re-open the bug if you deem fit.
Hello, I don't think this should be closed. For a developer autogen gives the option to include a self-contained version of libopts it into programs. This is needed so that programs compile even in OSes that don't include libopts. According to the autogen manual [0], this is done by retrieving the file shown with the following command: $ autoopts-config libsrc /usr/share/autogen/libopts-40.0.15.tar.gz However this file is not distributed in fedora. This makes a developer's life difficult as one has to download and install the original autogen tarball to get the bundled libopts sources. [0]. see http://autogen.sourceforge.net/doc/Licensing.html#Licensing
The autogen package now includes the libopts tear-off tarball and the libopts-devel package depends on autogen.