Hi, Shaun McCance schrieb: > 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 > Any news on this? Its still unchanged. I could change thsi to helpdocdir.
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