The binaries in tests/ need a static build of spice-gtk libraries in order to be built, but by default, we disable static libraries at LT_INIT() time. As the compile failure can be quite cryptic when someone tries to manually run 'make -C tests', this commit adds an explicit error message when trying to build the tests without --enable-static. --- tests/Makefile.am | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am index 19c02b6..144bc38 100644 --- a/tests/Makefile.am +++ b/tests/Makefile.am @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +if !BUILD_TESTS +$(error Building tests requires using --enable-static) +endif NULL = noinst_PROGRAMS = \ -- 2.5.0 _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel