No configure test for pandoc

[GvMariani]

Rosa Linux ATM does not package pandoc, however rapicorn seems to need it:

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• /usr/bin/make -j4 /usr/bin/make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/abf/rpmbuild/BUILD/rapicorn-16.0.0' Making all in . make[2]: Entering directory '/tmp/abf/rpmbuild/BUILD/rapicorn-16.0.0' GEN README cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status --file=rapicorn.pc:rapicorn.pc.in GEN ChangeLog make[2]: pandoc: Command not found Makefile:1253: recipe for target 'README' failed make[2]: * [README] Error 127 make[2]: * Waiting for unfinished jobs.... config.status: creating rapicorn.pc config.status: WARNING: 'rapicorn.pc.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/abf/rpmbuild/BUILD/rapicorn-16.0.0' Makefile:706: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed make[1]: * [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/abf/rpmbuild/BUILD/rapicorn-16.0.0' Makefile:572: recipe for target 'all' failed make: * [all] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /home/giovanni/rpm/tmp/rpm-tmp.47615 (%build)

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It would be a good thing to test in configure for the presence of all the software needed to do a successful build...

[tim-janik]

Yes, we happily take patches ;-) Btw, I'd be happy to integrate RPM test builds into our travis setup (docker based) once you got working RPM build instructions for me.

[GvMariani]

I'm very little fond of the autotools intricacies, but is something as the snippet below enough?

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dnl Check for pandoc AC_CHECK_PROG(HAVE_PANDOC, pandoc, true, false) if test "x$HAVE_PANDOC" = "xfalse"; then AC_MSG_ERROR([*\ Pandoc is needed by Rapicorn]) fi

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[GvMariani]

Btw, I'd be happy to integrate RPM test builds into our travis setup (docker based) once you got working RPM build instructions for me.

I don't know much about docker and travis, but I guess you're already familiar with things as: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm If so, I can share and comment the .spec file I'm using to instruct the rpm build-system to do a rapicorn build: perhaps you can figure how to translate for your build setup...

[GvMariani]

I tested the snipped above with rapicorn 16.0.0 sources and it works: ie makes the configure pass to fail with a message when pandoc is not installed...

[tim-janik]

Commit a2b3a69c649f5c9008f8e8b74e6d70d615d1324e (and previous ones) properly check for pandoc now. Thanks for your input.