Re: gtkdoc-rebase detection troubles

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Sven Herzberg schrieb:
> 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?
> 
Good idea, did that and it works fine for me. Let me know if it still fails for
anyone.

Stefan

>> 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
>