build system proposals for gnome2-branch

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:08:08PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I tested these changes and they pass the autogen/make/make
install/execute test.  I did notice a couple things.  I now see *many*
cases of:

*** Warning: Linking the shared library FOO.la against the loadable module
*** FOO.so is not portable!

Where FOO is just about every object in the tree.

Also, the 'make install' after a 'make' seemed to take longer than I'm
used to, but I may have imagined that.  Anyway, despite the warnings,
it runs.  I didn't test Phil's patch, which looks better, but I don't
have GNOME2_PATH set so I wouldn't have noticed.

Since it didn't break my build, I recommend this for commitment to g2,
with Phil's patch.  It'd be nice to squash those warnings, (along with
all the GOG CFLAGS warnings) but we can do that later.

-chris