[ccan] CCAN: code upload with name ogg_to_pcm.tar.gz

[Rusty Russell]

On Thursday 09 April 2009 14:17:00 Tim Post wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 13:06 +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> > 2009/4/9 Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>:
> > > On Thursday 09 April 2009 09:50:54 Rusty Russell wrote:
> > >> Yes, but it was a nice topical point (we'd been discussing this recently
> > >> on IRC).  And seeing the games people play lets us improve ccanlint :)
> > >
> > > Actually, your uploads (got wwviadio too, thanks!) raise a new question:
> > > how to list non-ccan dependencies.
> > 
> > NOBODY has a good solution for that problem yet.
> 
> I was looking at pulling bits out of glibc 

Don't do that.  Seriously.

If there's a corollary of the Golden Rule[1], it's that we never should
copy glibc.  It is a tasteless land of infinite horror.

> Where ccan_check_ldconfig() prints each one as it does now, but breaks
> if something isn't found (causing it to be skipped and not tested).

It's Unix-specific, and assumes that we're talking about libraries, it assumes
the library names, and it assumes that the ld versions correspond to the
versions specified in the header.

Worst of all, it's not addressing a real problem.  If I have the
dependencies wrong and the tests compile and pass, we have other problems.
If they break, we don't really need to automate the general case to fix
it.

Hope that helps,
Rusty.

[1] http://ccan.ozlabs.org/Wiki/GoldenRule