[master 0/8] Don't require a built tree to make dist, and other changes

Vratislav Podzimek vpodzime at redhat.com
Fri Jul 25 06:11:50 UTC 2014


On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 15:32 -0400, David Shea wrote:
> The big change is that this gets rid of gtk-doc. gtk-doc mostly just makes
> things harder for us, so let's just not use it anymore. This will hopefully
> make things easier for those of you making and testing builds, since it means
> that you no longer need to run `make' before `make dist'. ./configure and `make
> po-pull' are still necessary. ./configure --enable-gtk-doc will fail, because
> there's no --enable-gtk-doc anymore.
> 
> Other than that, add some things to some autotools files, remove some things,
> and do the tests in such a way that missing dependencies don't cause the
> configure script to fail. If you're just running `make dist' you don't really
> care whether or not gtk3-devel-3.very-latest is installed or not. gettext
> and gobject-introspection-devel are still required in order for autogen.sh to
> run, but intltool and the rest of the g* things are no longer hard
> requirements.
Apart from leaving no way to build the docs these patches look good to
me. Well, with my limitted understanding of all the autotools magic.
Definitely a step in the right direction.

-- 
Vratislav Podzimek

Anaconda Rider | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic



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