Re: xmldocs.make and friends

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:25:36PM -0600, John Fleck wrote:
> 
> I'd like to restart the discussion about how to deal with this so that
> we can come up with an answer and take care of the problem in the GNOME
> 2.2 time frame. I don't have the auto* expertise to suggest the specific
> syntax needed in our build files. I can only assume the suggested fixed
> offered by James and Tommi on the bug report are correct. I do see more
> dragons ahead down the path we're on if we keep trying to fix this one
> xmldocs.make file at a time.
> 
> Suggestions?

My first thought was to have something akin to intltool.  However, I
suspect that a low tech approach may be simpler.   Have a module
that contains
    - a copy of the xmldocs.make file
    - pkgconfig info with a pointer to the installed copy of xmldocs.make
Then application can cut-n-paste some pkgconfig magic to find and
include the common copy of the xmldocs.make file.

It avoids making major changes to the current infrastructure, and
does not suffer from the problems associated with the dreaded
'macros' dir approach.