On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 09:33:22PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 12/28/20 9:04 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > First, comment on gtkmm3 - the book does not have '..' in the > > meson command. Seems unusual, Im using e conventional '..'. > > > > Second, a question: why are the docs for this package so > > important ? > > > > The book passes -Dbuild-documentation=true and later installs > > the docs. But that requires doxygen which is not listed as a > > dependency. > > > > ../meson.build:193:0: ERROR: Program 'doxygen' not found > > > > Without forcing the docs to be build, it doesn't need doxygen. > > In the absence of doxygen I can't test if docs are built > > automatically if it is present, but I think they are only built > > if forced or if forcing maintainer mode. > > > > I suggest that doxygen should be listed as optional, the define > > should be moved to an example switch, and the command to install > > them moved to 'if you have built the documentation...' > > I'm OK with that. I am pretty busy right now, so can you do it? > > -- Bruce > Added to my ToDo list (after testing openbox and fluxbox without patched polkit, but before looking at whichever other autoconf / autoreconf packages don't have excessive dependencies). System now booted (i.e. I've now built all of my normal desktop). Rebuilding gcc (in /opt) with vanilla -O2 for when I need to measure things, and going to bed ;-)
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