On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:24:44AM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > Log:
> > Update gtk-doc.
> > 
> > -<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var/lib 
> > &amp;&amp;
> 
> Is the default now /var/lib? That's why it was removed? Or
> is it because of what is later in the file, that there are
> no scrollkeeper files any longer?
 The latter.
> 
> 
> > +<screen><userinput>sed -i '/^pkgconfigdir/s/datadir/libdir/' &amp;&amp;
> 
> I don't think we need this. See below.
> 
> 
> > +    <para>The test suite requires that the package has been installed 
> > first, and
> > +    in any case it fails because of a missing file, so there is little 
> > point
> > +    in running it.  If you insist on seeing the results, as a normal user 
> > run:
> 
> A couple of things:
> 
> 1. It reads funny. Perhaps "The test suite requires that the package
> has been installed first, but there's no reason to run it as there is
> a missing file which causes the test suite to fail."
> 
 I prefer that.  I'll change it once I've got my current edits on
the gstreamer packages in.
> Perhaps it's just me, but I couldn't parse that first sentence you
> wrote until I read it several times.
> 
> 2. What is a normal user? And once that is defined, what would
> an abnormal user be? :-)  We generally use "unprivileged" instead
> of normal.
 I did a partial grep against 'user' but didn't find (or didn't
notice) 'unprivileged'.  Will fix.
> 
> 
> > +    <para><command>sed -i '/^pkgconfigdir/s/datadir/libdir/'</command>:
> > +    this installs the pkgconfig file in a place which is on
> > +    <envar>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</envar> instead of in
> > +    <filename class='directory'>/usr/share/pkgconfig</filename>.</para>
> 
> This isn't required because pkg-config now searches
> /usr/share/pkgconfig by default. Try it and you'll see.
> 
 Did I miss the memo about this different behaviour ? ;-)
> > +
> > +    <!-- no scrollkeeper files with this version
> >      <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude";
> > -    href="../../xincludes/scrollkeeper-dir.xml"/>
> > +    href="../../xincludes/scrollkeeper-dir.xml"/>-->
> 
> What happens with packages that still expect scrollkeeper
> files? (if there are any)
 Dunno.
> 
> -- 
> Randy
> 

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