Re: [patch] eliminate duplicate macros

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 05:18  PM, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> While on vacation the last couple days, I actually realized "damn! I
> told Marco to commit AM_GCONF_SOURCE to both branches and the
> duplicate macros will break parallel installs!" but I had no computer
> to send out email. ;-) Doh.

The actual problem I ran into was a duplicate macro just within a GNOME 2 
tree, because there were two copies of AM_GCONF_SOURCE in gconf.m4 on HEAD 
(and Marco didn't notice that mistake when he turned it into gconf.m4.in).

The problem you describe is separate, similar, and your solution sounds OK 
to me.

> Darin the AM_GCONF_SOURCE macro adds a configure option for where to
> install schemas, so is not overlapping with pkg-config
> functionality. But AM_PATH_GCONF should go away because it does
> overlap.

I see. I guess I was premature in celebrating the demise of installed 
aclocal .m4 files.

At some point, I'd like to understand which gconf-using packages need to 
invoke AM_GCONF_SOURCE in their configure.in files. Perhaps the gconf 
documentation is the right place to answer this question.

    -- Darin