Re: Documentation for build system setup



On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 08:52 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 15:12 +0100, Sebastian Geiger (Lanoxx) wrote:
One more question:

The sample autogen.sh on https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommo
n/
Migration also explicitly calls aclocal like this:

aclocal --install || exit 1

But the man page for autoreconf says that autoreconf also calls
aclocal, is this redundant? If so, can it be removed?

I think it can indeed be removed if you're not using any of the other
-ize programs (glib-gettextize, intltoolize, gtkdocize).

Why should it be necessary to call aclocal if you’re using the -ize
programs? All they do is copy files into place, which shouldn’t depend
on any other files (or aclocal.m4) being in place, right?

Giving this a spin with a project which currently uses `aclocal;
intltoolize; autoreconf`, intltoolize seems to need aclocal to create
$srcdir/m4, but nothing else. *facepalm*

Philip

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