Re: gtkdoc-rebase detection troubles

[Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org>]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 29.12.2008, 22:10 +0200 schrieb Stefan Kost:
> since the introduction of gtkdoc-rebase, I am patching the gtk-doc.make back and
> forth to find a portable way to detect its existence. Right this is what we do:
> 
> -which gtkdoc-rebase >/dev/null && gtkdoc-rebase ...

Why not do the proper detection in the gtk-doc m4-macro and just have an
if HAVE_GTKDOC_REBASE in the gtk-doc.make?

> There is a '-' to make the rule not fail. which returns false if it does not
> find the command in the path (well that was the plan) and if found executes it.
> 
> On solaris and macos which does not return false if the command is not found:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565322
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562310
> 
> For history read:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508897
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559281
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501066
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501617

Regards,
  Sven