[distcc] How to get libpopt for Solaris

[Martin Pool]

On 17 Oct 2002, Martin <ma at placid.tv> wrote:
> I've made available a distcc-current as of nov-17 with my alternative
> popt "library", binaries say 0.13.  What has been done is minor stuff
> really:
> * Edited out popt from Makefile.in and the configure script
> * Added my very basic popt replacement; marg.c marg.h
> * Changed dopt.c to use marg functions
> 
> It should be possible to just copy marg.{c,h} and dopt.c to 0.12 release
> and compile if you are reluctant to try distcc-current.  Oh, you will also
> need to edit configure and Makefile to compile..
> 
> Get the tarball here: http://www.placid.tv/distcc_current_1710.tgz

Thankyou for putting this up.  

I think a better solution than reinventing popt is to include it in
the source distribution, and use it if there is no system library.
This is what rsync and samba do.  I'll try to copy that across in the
near future.

Also, please if you ever distribute a fork of a free project (even a
small one), make sure to change the version number to indicate it's
different.  Getting bug reports for something that claims to be 0.13
but actually is not would be a waste of time for everybody.  The GNU
GPL actually requires you to do this.

-- 
Martin