Re: gnome-common?? gnome-autogen.sh??

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Naba Kumar <kh_naba gmx net> writes:
> 
> Surprisingly, RedHat-8.0 doesn't ship with gnome-common. All the devel
> packages are installed and only gnome-common seems to be missing in the
> box. gnome-common contains gnome-autogen.sh and it's needed for building
> some (most?) gnome2 apps.
> 
> I am not sure if I am missing something here. Is gnome-autogen.sh
> deprecated or something? Please someone let me know.
> 

gnome-common is a CVS-only thing. Nothing outside of cvs.gnome.org
should be using it, because we make no guarantees about the stability
of the "interface" that it presents. e.g. to move to a different
automake we'll just change what gnome-autogen.sh does, and that would
break many apps.

Third-party apps should be using their own autogen.sh script.

Havoc