Re: [Protux-devel] oops!

[Martin Herren]

Luciano Giordana wrote:

> this is the famous vtable error. You just have to run 
>
> make -f admin/Makefile.common
>
> ./configure
>
> and so on..

it's almost standard nowadays to have to run
   $ ./configure
   $ make
   $ make install
with most open source software releases.

For CVS versions it's normal that you have to run
   $ aclocal
   $ autoheader
   $ autoconf
   $ automake
before, and i think that's what is done by this admin/Makefile.common 
file... but that's only for devellopers and other people wanting to be 
on the bleeding edge of development.
For the normal user these steps (that means of course also 'make -f 
admin/Makefile') shouldn't be needed. Furthermore these steps force the 
user to have autoconf & automake installed on his system, what's usually 
not needed by the configure script !

Wouldn't it be possible to get rid of it for the releases ?

Martin