Re: [NON-WORKING PATCH] gar.fixups

["Bob Kashani" <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

Arrgh...I meant to CC myself but ended up CC'ing the list. I hate Webmail!!!

Sorry, if you guys got multiple copies of this. :(

Bob

>> Hey Bob,
>>
>> (cc'ing Guenther for my records, but don't bother answering until after
>> you've aced your exam man :))
>>
>> I've put the gar.{lib}.mk patch I was telling you about on the FTP site,
>> if you can explain to me why it doesn't do what it should do, you're a
>> genius ... because i've spent three hours on it, and i've got the
>> feeling i've missed something really really simple, but ... more eyes
>> would help a lot :)
>>
>> Basically, the intention is to run libtoolize or intltoolize from
>> gar.lib.mk directly, depending on the prerequisite file being there, eg.
>> if desktop/control-center ships with a broken intltool and the libtool
>> linking bug, the fixup-% command regenerates both files from our
>> intltool and libtool.
>>
>> But it doesn't, all it does is tell me the function is completed.
>>
>> The order is now:
>>
>> * extract
>> * patch (if required)
>> * fixup (if required) [added]
>> * configure
>> * build
>> * install
>>
>> ...because (as I said to you via IRC) the re-{lib/intl}toolizing has to
>> be done before configure runs, otherwise the configure.in has the
>> ability to regenerate the files on it's own using the system-based
>> files.
>>
>> If we can get this going before 2.10, i'd be thrilled -- because it'd
>> close a number of bugs i'm monitoring upstream, a number of GARNOME
>> bugs, and stop people who's systems include .la files from complaining
>> about linking errors ... all without having to have a "pre-configure:"
>> rule in every bloody Makefile.
>>
>> ftp://cipherfunk.org/pub/gar-fixups-nonworking.patch
>>
>> As I said, I have a feeling i've missed something really simple, but ...
>>
>
> It's usually always something simple. :)
>
> Did you add:
>
> FIXUP_SCRIPTS = $(WORKSRC)/intltool-update.in $(WORKSRC)/ltmain.sh
>
> to your desktop/control-center/Makefile?
>
> Also, shouldn't that be intltool-update instead of intltool-update.in?
>
> Bob
>
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