Re: fail autogen.sh when aclocal-1.4 fails

[Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas urgent rug ac be>]

Hi,

> 	Dude. The point here is that by committing this, you're likely
> to break the build pretty severly. I've looked at one module that I
> maintain and this patch should break it ..
> 
> gnome-desktop]$ automake-1.4 --gnu; echo $?
> desktop-docs/gnome-feedback/C/Makefile.am:37: variable `entities' not defined
> 1
> 
> 	This error doesn't break the build, but with your patch it
> would. And I'm sure this isn't the only module ...

I'm willing to offer myself up in fixing all build issues that arise from 
this.  It is indeed possible that some modules suffer from severe 
autotool brainlessness.  But that should be fixed anyway.
I checked out gnome-desktop to fix this particular error but I don't have 
it at all.  Did someone already fix it ?

I'll get me a cvs checkout script, apply bastien's patch and start fixing 
what I encounter.


On a related note - I started by checking out desktop-docs ;) That was 
confusing.  Maybe it'd be a good idea to either move all of the "old" 
modules to a separate repository (gnome1 for example) so that it's still 
available, but not confusing) ? Or maybe add an OBSOLETE file everywhere 
or something ?

Thomas

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