Re: Documentation for build system setup

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 9 February 2017 at 13:57, Sebastian Geiger (Lanoxx) <lanoxx gmx net> wrote:
> What confuses me is that this paragraph starts with the phrase "it does
> not need any modifications made".
>
> > It does not need any modifications made, unless you need to run
> > another tool before configure, or do not use one of glib-gettextize,
> > gtkdocize or intltoolize. (Note that you should not use both
> > glib-gettextize and intltoolize in the same module, and it is better
> > to use neither; see the FAQ entry below for details.)
>
> It might be more helpful to provide a autogen.sh listing that omits both
> glib-gettextize and intltoolize and then add a paragraph explaining to
> add these for project that use either of these tools. If I understand
> right both a deprecated anyway and should not be needed for
> state-of-the-art projects.
>
> Maybe write something like this:
>
> If you are still using the deprecated glib-gettextize, then add the following line immediately before
> autoreconf:
>
>     glib-gettextize --force --copy || exit 1
>
> If you are still using the almost obsolete intltoolize, then add the following line immediately before
> autoreconf:
>
>     intltoolize --force --copy --automake || exit 1

Those look like good changes, indeed. Feel free to update the wiki.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

> On 09/02/17 11:45, Philip Withnall wrote:
> > Can we please standardise on the autogen.sh given in
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommon/Migration#autogen.sh ?
> >
> > It does everything we need, and meets all the standards (like build-
> > api). If you’ve got improvements to make, please make them on that
> > page.
> >
> > Sebastian: the paragraph immediately above the example does say that
> > you should remove one or both of the intltoolize/glib-gettextize calls
> > as appropriate.
>
>
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