Hi Gnome Devs, I was looking at the following overview page today:
https://developer.gnome.org/platform-overview/unstable/ e.g. "platform-overview/3.22/index.page" I would like to submit the following feedback about this page. An aspect that I am missing here is some information about the build system setup. For example most Gnome Modules are currently autotools based, they ship an autogen.sh and follow a certain set of best practices in their configure.ac and Makefile.am files. It would be great to have an additional entry on this page that is maybe named "build automation" or "building the application" and that contains some information about how to setup the build system. I would suggest to limit that to autotools for the moment but it could be extended to mention meson or cmake in the future. I know we already have a bunch of good documentation on the wiki, for example: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/ModernAutotools https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/NicerBuilds https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommon/Migration However it seems to me that none of these pages offers a really up to date information and consistent summary of how a typical gnome application should be setup today. I guess that there probably exist other wiki pages that I have not found yet. I am also pretty certain that I have seen various blog posts on Planet Gnome about build system aspects but cant remember the links to them. A few example questions for which I would hope to find answers in the documentation are: 1. What are best practices when setting up autogen.sh, is there are recommended template to start with. I know the GnomeCommon migration guide lists one, but I did not find it useful. In particular because it contains calls to both glib-gettextize and intltoolize and the page later mentions that exactly this should not be done. > Your autogen.sh file might include a call to either glib-gettextize or > intltoolize. (If it calls both, then you have done something wrong, > since they don't work properly together.) glib-gettextize is now > obsoleted by new functionality in upstream gettext, and autoreconf > will call autopoint automatically. 2. What are best practices regarding builddir!=srcdir builds? Are there any special steps required when using jhbuild, when I want it to do out-of-tree builds? 3. What are some recommended macros from autoconf-archive that should be used? If there is already a good documentation about this, and I just missed it, then I apologise for the noise. Best Regards Sebastian P.S. I am cross-posting this on the desktop-devel-list, maybe other people have some suggestions about this. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
