Re: Gtk-OSX

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 06/09/10 21:39, John Ralls wrote:
> On Sep 6, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Stefan Kost wrote:
>
> > I think I heard somewhere that you have a kind of dummy gtk-doc to
> > satisfy the build deps. I wonder if we can fix this somehow better.
> > Can you either ping me in #gtkdoc (gimpnet-irc), write to gtk-doc
> > mailing list or even to me in person and describe the problem. Also
> > let me know where I can look at the dummy package that you are
> > using.

The dummy gtk-doc I used a while back was stolen from Tor's work to get 
Evolution going on Windows:

  http://www.go-evolution.org/Building_Evolution_on_Windows#Fake_gtk-doc

> No, it's gnome-doc-utils that's faked to satisfy the build deps,
> along with a package of DocBook DTDs (that the real gnome-doc-utils
> would provide if it wasn't faked). I thought that it had to do with
> not wanting to deal with scrollkeeper, but that doesn't seem to have
> anything to do with gnome-doc-utils. At this point, I don't really
> know why it's there; perhaps one of the Lanedo folks still here knows
> or can find out from Richard Hult. I'll experiment with just using
> the real gnome-doc-utils instead.

As I recall (and this is from my Windows building GTK+ experience a 
while back now), the reason was because autogen.sh / configure.{ac|in} 
include gtk-doc m4 macros and so you have to have gtk-doc installed in 
some capacity to actually get the build working.

Personally, I hate this. I have always thought that gtk-doc should be 
build time optional and not in the sense that you disable building 
project documentation but rather that you don't need any part of gtk-doc 
to actually make your build work.

If I am out of date on any of these matters, then I will happily accept 
corrections :)

> If it works, then
> gnome-doc-utils-fake and gtk-osx-docbook can go away. If it doesn't,
> then when time permits I'll see about fixing it. It doesn't look like
> either gnome-doc-utils-fake or gtk-osx-docbook should migrate to
> gnome.org.

I would rather fix gtk-doc.

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Regards,
Martyn