On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 23:01 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote: > Hi Shaun, > Shaun McCance schrieb: > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 08:24 +0200, Stefan Kost wrote: > >> hi, > >> > >> Quoting Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >>> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:25 +0200, Stefan Kost wrote: > >>>> hi, > >>>> > >>>> xmldocs.make at > >>>> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-common/trunk/doc-build/xmldocs.make?revision=3486&view=markup > >>>> redefines docdir and thus I get > >>>> > >>>> xmldocs.make:39: docdir was already defined in condition TRUE, which > >>>> includes condition ENABLE_SCROLLKEEPER ... > >>>> help/manual/C/Makefile.am:8: `xmldocs.make' included from here > >>>> configure.in:8: ... `docdir' previously defined here > >>>> > >>>> when running autogen (e.g. for gtk-doc). Shouldn't xmldocs.make use e.g. > >>>> > >>>> - docdir = $(datadir)/gnome/help/$(docname)/$(lang) > >>>> + helpdocdir = $(datadir)/gnome/help/$(docname)/$(lang) > >>>> > >>>> and use the new symbol? > >>> Are you using xmldocs.make in conjunction with another documentation > >>> build utility like gnome-doc-utils or gtk-doc? > >>> > >> xmldocs.make is used to build the user-manual for gtk-doc. There is a > >> plan to switch to gnome-doc-utils for the gtk-doc manual, but its > >> blocked on broken libxml on ubuntu edgy. Will check this again after > >> upgrading to gutsy. > >> > >> Anyway, I still see xmldocs.make use here and there and thus would > >> like to figure our whats wrong there and fix it. > > > > All right. I'm just trying to figure out what else is > > setting docdir that this conflicts with. With g-d-u > > I tried to give all the Makefile variables consistent > > names prefixed with DOC_ or _DOC_ to avoid conflicts, > > although it does use docdir as a shell variable a few > > times. But this clearly isn't a g-d-u conflict. > > > > And it doesn't seem to be a conflict with gtk-doc either. > > gtk-doc doesn't seem to use itself to build anything, and > > it certainly isn't loading gtk-doc.make in that particular > > directory, which is all that should matter. > > > > So where's the docdir conflict coming from? > > > docdir is a standard variable from autotools like 'datadir' and 'builddir'.
Ah. In that case, it should absolutely be changed. Malcolm Tredinnick is in the MAINTAINERS file for gnome-common, but I haven't seen him around in ages. I've generally talked to James Henstridge about gnome-common changes in the past. I'm CCing him to see what can be done. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
