Compiling love fron svn

[ido]

Hi,

I tried to compile the latest from subversion, and ran into some problem:

$ svn co https://love.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/love/trunk love-trunk

checked out ok

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$ aclocal
$ autoconf
$ automake --add-missing 
configure.in:8: installing `platform/unix/config.guess'
configure.in:8: installing `platform/unix/config.sub'
configure.in:5: installing `platform/unix/install-sh'
configure.in:8: required file `platform/unix/ltmain.sh' not found
configure.in:5: installing `platform/unix/missing'
src/Makefile.am: installing `platform/unix/depcomp'
$ automake
configure.in:8: required file `platform/unix/ltmain.sh' not found
$ ./configure
<snip lots of lines, see [url=http://pastebin.com/f2617c3d7]pastebin[/url]>
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: error: cannot find input file: Makefile.in

Any idea as to what went wrong and how to fix it?

[appleide]

IIRC... The latest version is a work-in-progress and doesn't 'work' yet, so even when you finish compiling it wouldn't load any games.

[Alex]

IIRC... The latest version is a work-in-progress and doesn't 'work' yet, so even when you finish compiling it wouldn't load any games.

This has been bugging me for a while. I understand the need to tear apart code if you need to do some major refactoring or architectural changes, but could it please not get done on the only branch of the vcs? I won't complain about broken code in an experimental branch, but shouldn't there be a stable branch for bug fixes? Not having one completely removes the ability to react to any urgent issues that come up with the code that everyone is using.

[appleide]

IIRC... The latest version is a work-in-progress and doesn't 'work' yet, so even when you finish compiling it wouldn't load any games.

This has been bugging me for a while. I understand the need to tear apart code if you need to do some major refactoring or architectural changes, but could it please not get done on the only branch of the vcs? I won't complain about broken code in an experimental branch, but shouldn't there be a stable branch for bug fixes? Not having one completely removes the ability to react to any urgent issues that come up with the code that everyone is using.

I mostly agree but I'm sure Rude & Mike have their reasons.

[ido]

IIRC... The latest version is a work-in-progress and doesn't 'work' yet, so even when you finish compiling it wouldn't load any games.

This has been bugging me for a while. I understand the need to tear apart code if you need to do some major refactoring or architectural changes, but could it please not get done on the only branch of the vcs? I won't complain about broken code in an experimental branch, but shouldn't there be a stable branch for bug fixes? Not having one completely removes the ability to react to any urgent issues that come up with the code that everyone is using.

This is particularly annoying since the latest available download is more than 3 months old.

Is there a plan for a nightly build system anytime in the foreseeable future?

[athanazio]

@ido
I belive you should use https://love.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroo ... ags/0.5.0/
not trunk.

cheers

[ido]

athanazio: that tag is 6 months old and is exactly the same as the 0.5 download.

[athanazio]

@ido
ops sorry I understood that you want the last stable version.

[rude]

I mostly agree but I'm sure Rude & Mike have their reasons.

Ehe, no good reason, really.

but could it please not get done on the only branch of the vcs?

Sorry. After 0.6.0, I'll stop using /trunk for anything but minor bugfixes.

[Alex]

Sorry. After 0.6.0, I'll stop using /trunk for anything but minor bugfixes.

I'm very pleased to hear this. Thank you!