Re: automake transition

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Alex Graveley wrote:

> Hi,
>
> So I've been building everything with automake 1.6.1 for a long time
> now, and the only packages I can think of off hand that have problems
> are audiofile, gstreamer, gst-plugins, monkey-sound, and rhythmbox.  
>
> There are however a lot of makefiles that have to be run a few times
> because they die on one-time warnings, usually related to variable
> naming.
>  
I suspect that many of the packages you are building with automake 1.6 
will fail to distcheck, so they don't fully work with 1.6.  To correctly 
distcheck, the package needs to:

   * be able to successfully do a builddir build with a read-only srcdir
   * make sure that "make uninstall" removes all files installed with
     "make install"
   * make sure that "make distclean" removes all files in the builddir

In some of my packages, I cheated on the first part for the gtk-doc 
stuff and added a "chmod u+w $(srcdir)" line in places.  For the second, 
you need to add "uninstall-local" targets that undo what your 
"install-*local" targets do.  For the third, you need to add 
distclean-local targets that remove extra build files, or add to the 
CLEAN_FILES variable.

James.

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