Re: What does the file extension ".hg" mean?

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 23/06/2013 10:13, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Did you copy the source code from the git repository? If you do that, 
> you need several tools to build glibmm

Thanks for that, Kjell,

Interestingly enough, I've managed to build the entire GTK+ stack from 
Git Sources (over 70 x DLL's) without needing anything from Msys / 
Bourne Shell / autotools etc.  Of course, there was a lot of 
auto-generated stuff to deal with but I managed to figure it all out.  I 
only had glibmm and gtkmm left to do (and perhaps atkmm). For the other 
libraries I wrote a simple perl script to do the various configurations 
and substitutions (i.e. the stuff that usually gets done by autoconf).  
But the substitutions needed for glibmm are probably outside its scope, 
so I guess I'll have to revert to tarballs for these final three 
libraries.  What a pity... :-(

I'm probably being a bit dim here - but given that glibmm is a simple 
wrapper around glib, why is it necessary for any of it to get 
auto-generated?  Surely the wrappers are (pretty much) set in stone?

Or is it clever enough to examine glib and automatically add / update 
things as glib gets updated?

John