Re: [PATCH] make make dist work without making first

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 19:09, Raja R Harinath wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu> writes:
> > jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> >> this patch was required for me to be able to make dist without distcheck
> >> or building initially.
> > [snip]
> >> --- gobject/Makefile.am	2001/09/25 06:03:22	1.40
> >> +++ gobject/Makefile.am	2001/10/01 22:28:54
> >> @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
> >> 
> >>  libglib = $(top_builddir)/glib/libglib-1.3.la
> >> 
> >> +$(libglib):
> >> +	$(MAKE) -C $(top_builddir)/glib
> > 
> > Sorry for being dense, but why is this necessary?  
> > 
> > The toplevel Makefile lists 'glib' before 'gobject' -- so $(libglib)
> > must have already been built and up-to-date by the time this Makefile
> > is invoked.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't read the subject line.  
> 
> However, it appears that the reason you want to build $(libglib) is
> that you want to distribute the built sources.

you might be right, i didn't look into it much.  but it is kind of moo
since gtk's docs require some run-time introspection, which require all
of gtk to be built in order to generate the docs.

jacob
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