Re: automake & gconf

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:17:05AM -0800, Steven Jenkins wrote:
> On stock Red Hat 7.x, as far as I can tell, the AM_GCONF_SOURCE macro is 
> hardcoded to run 'gconftool'. Red Hat 7.x does not provide 'gconftool', 
> but calls it 'gconftool-1'.
> 
> Should AM_GCONF_SOURCE be fixed to look for any of the names gconftool 
> goes by, or is Red Hat missing a symlink?
> 

It sounds like something needs fixing, but I'd have to go back and
install a 7.x system and think about it to know what.  In any case,
it's sort of too late to fix for 7.x, so... not much to be done.

For what it's worth, users shouldn't need to use the AM_GCONF_SOURCE
macro that comes with 7.x, you can include your own copy in
acinclude.m4, or users can just avoid running "aclocal" and use the
pregenerated configure script from your tarball.

Havoc