According to Frodo Looijaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> >
> > Added glib M4 macros to detect glib on platform where there is no
> > glib: MacOS X, Win32, etc.
> >
> > CVS: Added Files:
> > CVS: ac-helpers/glib.m4
>
> But now autogen.sh (aclocal to be exact) complains:
> aclocal: ac-helpers/glib.m4: 8: duplicated macro `AM_PATH_GLIB'
>
> Can you please explain why you checked this in? Is it because you are
> afraid that developers won't be able to run autogen.sh because they
> don't have glib installed? If so,
I'm not afraid, I actually encountered it. Otherwise I wouldn't.
MacOS X port uses it and have no glib.
> I think we will need to put scripts
> like this in some other directory (for example, ac-helpers/fallback),
> and do something like this in autogen.sh:
>
> for script in `cd $ac-helpers; echo *.m4`; do
> if test -r `aclocal --print-ac-dir`/$script; then
> # Perhaps it was installed recently
> rm ac-helpers/$script
> else
> # Use the fallback script
> cp ac-helpers/fallback/$script ac-helpers
> fi
> done
>
> If you agree, I will check something like this in (it should be in 0.9.0,
> I think).
Yes, please do it. I agree on this.
Thanks, and sorry for the mess.
Hub
