[maemo-developers] Autobuilder and build-dependencies from extras-devel

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Jun 24, 2009, at 17:11, Luca Donaggio wrote:

> I'm writing an application (actually a RAW image files viewer, for  
> those interested :-) ) which depends at build time from an external  
> library. I've already packaged this library and I'm ready to upload  
> it to fremantle extras-devel, but I'm wondering ... when I'll be  
> ready to upload the main app source package, it will depend on the  
> (previously uploaded) library package: will the autobuilder  
> correctly manage those dependencies (ie download and install  
> mylibrary-dev package which in turn depends from mylibrary package,  
> both in extras-devel)?

Download and install? No.

But if you have previously uploaded those libraries to extras-devel  
then the autobuilder should find them.

More on the autobuilder: http://wiki.maemo.org/Uploading_to_Extras#Autobuilder_special_considerations

Jeremiah