FW: Autoconf Work

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Page
> Sent: 10 May 2003 00:37
> To: Adam H. Pendleton; Dave Page
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Autoconf Work
>
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> I think the patch and a note in our docs explaining how to
> fix the problem until wxWindows is fixed. We cannot
> distribute the file because it's LGPL which isn't compatible
> with pgAdmin's licence.
>
> Regards, Dave
>
> _____________Original message ____________
> Subject:    Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Autoconf Work
> Sender:    "Adam H. Pendleton" <fmonkey@fmonkey.net>
> Date:        Fri,  9 May 2003 23:32:22 +0000
>
> Andreas Pflug wrote:
>
> > So at the moment, we either need wxWindows 2.4.0 from source or the
> > additional file. How about checking this file in autoconf
> and copying
> > it into place if missing?
>
> I sent a message in reply directly to Andreas, but I thought I would
> send one to the list as well.  gridsel.h is included with the
> wxWindows
> 2.4.0 source distribution, but it is *not* installed by the 'make
> install' command.  IMO, this leaves us the following options
> regarding
> fixing the problem with autoconf:
>
> 1) Use an configure option to point to a wxWindows source tree
> location.  Autoconf can then include that file when building
> pgadmin3.
> This means that pgadmin3 will not compile against a binary
> distribution
> of wxWindows, though.
>
> 2) Provide a patch for the wxWindows source distribution to
> install the
> gridsel.h file.  This would not require autconf to do any special
> checks, but once again, pgadmin3 won't build against a binary
> wxWindows
> distribution.
>
> 3) Include the file with the pgadmin3 sources.  I realize
> that gridsel.h
> isn't part of the pgadmin3 code base, per se, but this options allows
> building against binary wxWindows distributions, as well as not
> requiring autoconf to do any special checking for the file.
>
> What is the consensus?
>
> ahp
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