Re: GnomeDocUtilsMigrationHowTo improvements

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi Behdad;

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 04:36 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> There are also a couple of technical problems with that document.  One
> is:
> 
> <quote>
> Set your build system up: 
>       * If you don't have one yet, create a m4 directory in your
>         toplevel source directory; and create a .cvsignore file in it
>         containing at least gnome-doc-utils.m4. Add this directory and
>         its .cvsignore to cvs. 
>         
>       * Add the following to configure.ac (resp. configure.in): 
>         
>               * AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
>   * Add m4 to EXTRA_DIST in the top-level Makefile.am See below Note 2
> </quote>
> 
> This is absolutely unnecessary, and it does create problems.  A lot.

I added that section as a result of what I did learn when porting
gnome-utils to gnome-doc-utils; at the moment of the porting, if I did
not include the macro directory in the EXTRA_DIST, make distcheck would
fail (I did various checks and the only change that affected the outcome
of distcheck was that).  Lately, I was able to pass the distcheck phase
even when the m4 directory was not inside the EXTRA_DIST variable - so I
think that porting my build environment to automake >= 1.7 did the
trick.

I think it's safe to assume that yes: that bit is wrong when using an
automake < 1.7; I'd like people with older versions of automake to test
that bit and see if it was just a screw up in my build environment.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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