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

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Hi,

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> 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.

Is 'autogen.sh' relevant anymore?  Most of the functionality is now
in 'autoreconf' from autoconf 2.5x.

I agree that the core GNOME tree would still have some issues with
moving to a newer automake, in particular.  However, third party tools
should have no trouble with newer automakes, and this newer autoconfs.

- Hari
PS: I haven't looked at the 'gnome-common' module over the last two years.
-- 
Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath cs umn edu