Re: more build sherrif-ery (and a touch of auto*)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 00:32 +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> 
> Still, I think it's about time we start moving the gnome modules to
> autotool setups that aren't from the paleolithic. In most cases, there
> won't be problems at all, and in the cases where only automake1.4 works
> well, we should put some time into fixing it for at least automake1.7.
> 
> I'd be glad to help a bit with this, if we decide it's doable.

Feel free to have a go at my modules (libwnck, metacity, etc.) ... for
some of them I tried porting a year or two ago and gave up for one
reason or another. Maybe they will work easily now or for someone with
more autotools clue. Definitely "make distcheck" has to work before
committing a patch, though.

It should not be necessary to port everything at once, since nobody
should be using /usr/bin/automake (only the -1.x numbered binary names).
So patches could be committed one-by-one as modules are fixed.

Havoc