Re: Build tools standard redux

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> For doing the work, the key work is to fix the base of the dependency
> stack (intltool, scrollkeeper, gtk-doc) etc. because there's a good
> chance maintainers will then do their own fixage in their own modules.
I have almost completed the work to simplify the gtk-doc support 
Makefiles in various packages.  That should almost completely remove 
problems related to gtk-doc (for the most part, it involves deleting 
stuff from the makefiles).

Intltool probably works sometimes, breaks in others.  That is, depending 
on which particular po/Makefile.in.in you have, the patch intltool 
applies may or may not pass distcheck.  At the moment, it seems that the 
patch it applies for the glib-gettext Makefile.in.in fails on 
srcdir!=destdir builds (so it would probably fail for automake 1.4 too, 
though I haven't checked it).  I don't think there are issues with the 
@INTLTOOL_*_RULE@ substitutions.

For scrollkeeper, we need to decide what the correct behaviour should 
be.  If we decide that scrollkeeper leaving a database in the install 
dir after "make uninstall" is not a bug, then we can fix the distcheck 
problem by defining distuninstallcheck_listfiles in the toplevel 
Makefile.am (I think this is a 1.7 only feature though).

James.

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