build system proposals for gnome2-branch

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:54:49PM +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> ok, now I've put together a proposal of what can be changed in the 
> gnome2-branch.  I'd suggest
> 
> - removal of acinclude.m4 -- it contains heaps of very old, legacy macros
> 
> - adding 2-3 unavoidable legacy macros into file macros/legacy_macros.m4 
> (attached)
> 
> - removal of ltmain.sh -- it should be installed by running libtoolize
> 
> - changing of macros/autogen.sh, diff attached. 
> 
> The changes to autogen.sh are
> 
> -	ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I $GNOME2_PATH/share/aclocal $ACLOCAL_FLAGS"
> +	# if GNOME2_PATH contains several directories, separate them properly
> +	TMP_PATH=`echo $GNOME2_PATH | sed 's/:/ -I /g' `
> +	ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I $TMP_PATH/share/aclocal $ACLOCAL_FLAGS"
> 
> to tolerate env variable GNOME2_PATH=/opt/gnome:/usr/bla/bla, and then 
> commenting in the libtoolize calls. Oh, and most importantly fix one typo
> 
> -      macrosdir=`find . -name macros -print`
> +      macrodirs=`find . -name macros -print`
> 
> If people agree, I would ask to apply this to gnucash-gnome2-dev. I don't have 
> time anymore and not for this week, so the end-test should be done by someone 
> else.

Well, I did volunteer, didn't I?  I'll see if I can test this tonight.

-chris

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian



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