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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] additional m4 files for full eautoreconf
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:09:36
Message-Id: 20080331090934.GE25954@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] additional m4 files for full eautoreconf by Michael Haubenwallner
1 On 11-03-2008 16:28:48 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > especially for interix, a full eautoreconf is required nearly always.
5 >
6 > Now, fex dev-libs/glib has an optional (USE=doc) dependency on
7 > dev-util/gtk-doc. But when doing eautoreconf, dev-util/gtk-doc becomes a
8 > hard dependency just because of gtk-doc.m4, required for aclocal and
9 > autoconf.
10 >
11 > To avoid this hard dependency, we provide gtk-doc.m4 in ${FILESDIR}/m4/
12 > within the tree currently, being a copy of dev-util/gtk-doc provided
13 > one.
14 >
15 > Anyone has a better idea ?
16
17 dev-util/gtk-doc-am has just been added to the tree. (gentoo-x86
18 aparently had the same problem).
19
20 So please use that (by depending on it) instead.
21
22
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24 Fabian Groffen
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