Re: gnome-common/macros2 cleanup

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:19:58PM +0800, James Henstridge wrote: 
>  
>
> > Based on this, the only macros I would consider worth keeping in 
> > gnome-common are:
> >
> >    * GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS
> >    
>
> I think we should try to get this one in the autoconf distribution.
> "Turn on the best-practices set of warnings for the current compiler"
>
>  
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> >    * GNOME_DEBUG_CHECK
> >    
>
> I'm not sure this is really useful, I would just let modules do their
> own thing. For example metacity has --enable-verbose and so forth.
>
> But if it is useful, again it belongs in autoconf.
>
>  
>
> > The common autogen.sh script could probably do with a bit of a cleanup. 
> > The main one is to allow modules to select an autoconf version other 
> > than automake-1.4.  While you might consider this unnecessary if we 
> > standardise on a single automake version, it will help during
> > transition.
> >    
>
> I agree you should able to select your autoconf/automake version.
> (Not that it does us any good until someone fixes scrollkeeper/etc. 
> rules to pass distcheck with new automake)
>  
according to the docs of automake-1.7.2, you can customise the check 
used to check for files not removed by "make uninstall".  Maybe this 
should be used to handle scrollkeeper?  I have some patches pending to 
help simplify gtk-doc build infrastructure which should help here too.

James.

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