Re: m4-common

[Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca>]

kara,

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015, at 07:23, Philip Withnall wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 16:13 -0500, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> Sounds reasonable to me. Would you mind updating the migration guide?
>     https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommon/Migration

Done.

One (potential) negative is that this gets other .m4 files (pkg.m4,
gsettings.m4, etc.) included into the package as well.  This is slightly
silly because it's impossible to build the package without pkg-config or
GLib installed anyway, but at least this will cause the autogen process
from tarballs to be self-contained.... that's... maybe useful?

One thing it would definitely help with is cutting down on weird shell
syntax errors stemming from (for example) the gobject-introspection m4
being missing and autoconf just emitting the macro call directly to
./configure as a raw shell command.

> I guess m4-common should also include a README which documents this,
> plus the reason for m4-common existing as a way to centralise
> downloading of the autoconf-archive macros we use.

OK.  Will do that.

> Would it also be worthwhile adding a dist-hook which causes dist to fail
> for m4-common, to make this really obvious?

Sure.  I can do that too.

Cheers