Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:03 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 14:17 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> > A policy request:
> > 
> >         It would be a good thing if all applications available from
> >         f.g.o were required to support 'make uninstall'
> >         
> > Most applications found on f.g.o do support 'make uninstall'.  There are
> > some that do not.
> > 
> > 
> > Thoughts???
> 
> Another thing that should work:
> 
> ./configure --disable-scrollkeeper should _REALLY_ mean don't run
> scrollkeeper-update, not just pretend to disable it and run it anyways
> because not all gtk-doc statements were wrecked out of the makefiles.
> The current state with gnome 2.14 is that we run sed over all
> Makefile.in files to wreck out the scrollkeeper-update statements, after
> we run ./configure with --disable-scrollkeeper.

--disable-scrollkeeper is a gnome-doc-utils feature, and should
work for any module using gnome-doc-utils.  If it's failing to
work in some situations with gnome-doc-utils, please file a bug.

--
Shaun