[parted-devel] CHECK dependency

[David Cantrell]

Debarshi Ray wrote:
> Can the dependency on CHECK be relaxed a bit. eg., if it is not
> available on the system configure should not fail, but gracefully
> continue without the unittesting support.
> 
> I am suggesting this because the Fedora repositories do not have a
> version of CHECK >= 0.9.4. The latest is 0.9.3
> (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repoview/check-devel-0-0.9.3-4.fc5.2.html). 
> 
> This is causing the configure script to fail since 0.9.4 is the
> minimum required version.
> 
> Although this is more of a problem with Fedora's repositories, but it
> would be nice if Parted maneged to fix it on its end. :-)

I agree that check shouldn't be forced.  But another question, why are 
you still running FC5?  Upgrade to FC6 or rawhide if you're doing 
development work.  Once the next release of FC is out, we won't be doing 
updates for FC5.

-- 
David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA