Re: HEAD not building

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 19:06, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 08:42, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 18:03, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> > > Another solution that will work right now is to add a macro to
> > > gnome-common so that something calling something like
> > > GNOME_NO_DEPRECATED() in you configure.in will put all the necessary
> > > defines in config.h. I shall add this shortly (on the weekend).
> > 
> > gnome-common eeeeeeeeeeeeevil
> 
> Do you want to back that up with some reasoning or just continue
> spreading the FUD?

I've posted my reasoning several times, going back to when gnome-common
first appeared...

Everything in gnome-common belongs somewhere else. glib, pkgconfig,
autoconf/automake themselves, gtk-doc, wherever.

There are a couple things in there that aren't a great fit for any of
those, but not enough to make it worth having a separate module.

gnome-common has nothing to do with GNOME. There's nothing
gnome-specific about it. At best we should have an autotools-addons
module (in fact there used to be such a thing on gnu.org, probably still
is).

gnome-common is like having gnome-make or gnome-bash or gnome-libtool.

Havoc