Re: Tarball generation using outdated tools (gnome-doc-utils, autotools)

[Jan de Groot <jan jgc homeip net>]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 13:07 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote:
> Ubuntu Edgy ships with gnome-doc-utils 0.8, which is incompatible with
> the 0.9.1 I have on my system (yes, still need to update to 0.9.2). As
> gnome-doc-utils 0.9.2 is the one that is shipped in the GNOME 2.17.91
> desktop release, the tarball for packages inside this release should be
> generated with that.
> All gnome-doc-utils build problems can be solved by regenerating the
> gnome-doc-utils.make file that comes with the tarball release. I don't
> know if the tarball is compatible with older gnome-doc-utils though, but
> as 0.9x. is more strict than 0.8.x, I doubt it would give problems with
> that.
> 
> For the autotools version: at this moment I've only found file-roller
> and control-center to be affected, the other packages don't include
> static files when building with --disable-static. A bug for file-roller
> is still open, the bug for control-center has been closed as NOTGNOME,
> as it's not a problem with the GNOME source, but with the generated
> tarball when generated by a buggy version of autoconf/make.
> 

OK, I was too quick with this one:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402159

This has been fixed in 0.9.2, category checks are skipped when an old
gnome-doc-utils.make is included in the tarball.

Packages should build fine with the latest gnome-doc-utils, even when
the tarball is generated using some outdated gnome-doc-utils package.