Re: Pango installation failure

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 11:02, Andy Wingo wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > I'd really like to switch our tarballs to be --disable-gtk-doc by
> > default:
> >  
> >  * It won't break if the Jade or gtk-doc setup is there but
> >    not fully functional.
> >  * Its a whole lot faster.
> > 
> > But I can't figure out how to get distcheck to work right
> > if --disable-gtk-doc is the default.
> > 
> >  * I want to require gtk-doc in order to do 'make dist'.
> >  
> >  * 'make distcheck' now runs a 'make dist' in the distributed
> >    tarball.
> > 
> >  * There is no way to control the options used to ./configure
> >    on the distributed tarball.
> > 
> > The only thing I can see doing is to copy the automake 'distcheck'
> > rules into a 'mydistcheck'.
> 
> since gtkdoc-scangobj requires the built objects, if you want the
> dist-hook to call gtkdoc you have to have run make beforehand.

(btw the auto* book recommends running make before make dist)

jacob
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