Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] additional m4 files for full eautoreconf

[Fabian Groffen]

On 11-03-2008 16:28:48 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> especially for interix, a full eautoreconf is required nearly always.

We should look into this FreeBSD stuff that Diego started to do
elibtoolize nearly always on FreeBSD.  It's a Google Summer of Code
project if I'm not mistaken.  Diego never finished it, that's why many
packages have elibtoolize just for FreeBSD now.

> Now, fex dev-libs/glib has an optional (USE=doc) dependency on
> dev-util/gtk-doc. But when doing eautoreconf, dev-util/gtk-doc becomes a
> hard dependency just because of gtk-doc.m4, required for aclocal and
> autoconf.
>
> To avoid this hard dependency, we provide gtk-doc.m4 in ${FILESDIR}/m4/
> within the tree currently, being a copy of dev-util/gtk-doc provided
> one.
>
> Anyone has a better idea ?

No, but it obviously stinks.


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