Re: --enable-gtk-doc

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 12 Aug 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:

> 
> To follow up to myself, I though of one disadvantage -
> initially one reason why I wanted this was to make
> 'make distcheck' run a quicker, but on second thought -
> this isn't a good idea, since it could mean not catching
> missing files needed for building docs.
> 
> In fact, since 'make distcheck' actually runs 'make dist'
> inside the new tarball, it might break make distcheck,
> since --enable-gtk-doc is required for 'make dist'
> 
> So, I'd probably need to either
> 
>  - Make enabling docs the default when the build directory
>    is called =build. 

hack this into configure.in with an apropriate comment.

>  - Have a gtkdistcheck target is like distcheck but
>    configures the tarball with --enable-gtk-doc.

and a glibdistcheck for glib...
no, i don't think this idea is good, make distcheck should
stay producing a readily shippable tarball for us and
cause the headaches _before_ we throw out the tarball.

> Both ugly. still, I think I'm in favor of the change
> in general.
> 
> Regards,
>                               Owen
> 

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ciaoTJ