Re: gnome-doc-utils, automake 1.9, and -Wno-portability

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Shaun McCance schrieb:
> Ever since automake 1.9, automake has been spewing garbage like
> this when you try to build any module that uses gnome-doc-utils:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507336

Does anyone know what a fix would be? What are the rules for "POSIX variable
name"? Most hits I get when searching for that error tell that its becausem fo
e.g. $(shell ...), but this isn't a variable name. Is the warning maybe crap and
it should be filed as a bug to automake?

> 
> Discussions on IRC indicate that we pretty much require GNU make
> all over the place in Gnome, including for intltool.  I have had
> numerous bugs filed and fixed against gnome-doc-utils for non-GNU
> systems (mostly by the venerable Joe Marcus Clarke).  I can only
> assume that, at this point, I'm not causing any *real* problems
> for non-GNU systems; otherwise, I'd be seeing real bugs.
> 
> It seems to me that, if we just require GNU make, we ought to
> just pass -Wno-portability to automake.  There's a bug and patch
> from Philip Van Hoof to do this:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529120
> 
On the other hand, we e.g. use pattern rules where a standart substitution rule
would be enough, so some of the things are easily fixable.

Stefan

> Christian Persch says he's in favor, but thinks it ought to be
> discussion on desktop-devel-list.
> 
> So folks, let's discuss.
> 
> --
> Shaun
>