Re: plan to drop automake-1.6 from jhbuild

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

On 01/09/04 12:17, Jonathan Blandford wrote:

> One thing that might be interesting to do at the same time is to clean
> up usage of gnome-common.  An equally unscientific survey of my src/
> directory shows that about half of the gnome-modules use
> gnome-autogen.sh, and half don't:
>
> % for file in `find . -name autogen.sh -maxdepth 2`; do if ! grep \
> gnome-autogen $file > /dev/null ; then echo $file; fi; done | wc
>
> While we're at it, is there a better spot for the two remaining macros?
> I'm wondering if we can kill this module, somehow.
>  
As well as the macros and autogen.sh script, there is some stuff in the 
gnome-common/doc-build that Malcolm set up to better handle the 
xmldocs.make and sgmldocs.make fragments.  It sounds like Shaun's 
gnome-doc-utils will eventually make these obsolete though (unless I am 
mistaken).

As far as the macros go, the only ones left after I purged the 
deprecated ones earlier this year are:

   * GNOME_COMMON_INIT: Makes sure that $ACLOCAL_FLAGS is used during a
     rebuild.  This one really only saves two lines of typing.
   * GNOME_DEBUG_CHECK: adds a --enable-debug configure script option
     and a corresponding cpp define.
   * GNOME_MAINTAINER_MODE_DEFINES: sets a Makefile variable to a bunch
     of _DISABLE_DEPRECATED macros if maintainer mode is enabled.
   * GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS, GNOME_CXX_WARNINGS: defines WARN_CFLAGS
     and WARN_CXXFLAGS.  Has a configure argument to add more/less flags.

Out of these the forth, and maybe the second, seem worthwhile trying to 
push upstream.  GNOME_COMMON_INIT() once did a lot more than it does 
now, but now that it is two lines I think it is probably easier to just 
inline it in packages.

The gnome-autogen.sh script might be suitable for distributing with 
glib.  I doubt we would be able to get it included with automake or 
autoconf, since they seem to recommend using "autoreconf" instead (which 
doesn't do everything that gnome-autogen.sh does).

James.

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