RE: building gnome-hello for book

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 01:37, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > From: kevdig rcn com [mailto:kevdig rcn com] 
> > What I was really looking for was a simple example of an
> > official build tree (i.e. autotools template) to use as a
> > template. Anyone have a suggestion?
> 
> gnome-hello should be that.

Really?? Then we need to fix it. It stopped becoming a sample build
template when autogen.sh was rewritten (see similar thread on
gnome-devel-list currently). It looks nothing like the "standard" build
now. To make it a template, you would want to add:

- standard autogen.sh (copy the one from gnome-common -- see bug #84442
for the work required there; I am assuming you don't want to depend on
gnome-common for a simple user-private package).

- API and user documentation building.

- If you are going to use configure.ac (indicating you are targeting
autoconf 2.50 and later), then upgrade the configure script to remove
the deprecated stuff.


I suspect that it is probably better to leave gnome-hello as is, with a
simple build structure and then we fix gnome-skel to be a good template.

Malcolm