Hi, The following is my reply to someone who recently sent me an e-mail with a modified Ggradebook 0.92 that includes autoconf/automake. First of all, I sincerely appreciate you looking into it. What you've created is not quite what I'm looking for. Please (re)read point #2 in my announcement: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/ggradebook-devel/2017-02/msg00001.html I would like the top level (root directory) to be empty. What autoconf/automake normally do is mess up the top level. These build tools require many different (separate) files, and as a result this programming tool starts dominating - it takes over - the entire package with its crap. It's very ugly, in my opinion. If all its files cannot live in their own auto/ directory or something similar, and then address (talk to) 1 or 2 files in the other directories to get work done, then I don't want autoconf/automake. Currently, the package uses a simple Makefile in the src/ directory, and with the exception of "make install" it's doing the job. I don't want autoconf/automake to make a mess of this package. It should be happy that I'm willing to give it its own directory and gets more than a single file. :) Also, I would like the user to get a warning if their GTK+ or GStreamer version is _newer_ than what is targeted. GTK+ in particular is a library that has the potential to create compatibility issues, and it deprecates functions constantly. I want users to know that any kind of warnings the application is throwing, or any unintended behavior its displaying, _may_ be the result of non-matching library versions. My simple Makefile has a decent implementation of this. Another problem with your package is the following. This program has directories with content that it relies on. These directories are docs/, ogg/ and pix/. If a user runs "make", the executable should be moved into the parent directory for it to find files in those directories. Related to this, and equally important, is that "make install" should take into account the aforementioned directories and that PKGDATADIR in the source code should (thus) be respected. In the package you sent me, there are no autoconf/automake related files in, for example, the ogg/ directory. This suggests to me that autoconf/automake ignores this directory. I can confirm this suspicion by running "make install", running the program and then selecting "Help..." from the application's Help menu. It cannot find the docs/README.txt file. One last thing. Perhaps autoconf/automake requires this, but... The gcc commands appears to look for header files in directories that I'm unfamiliar with. Including, but not limited to, "/usr/include/at-spi-2.0", "/usr/include/dbus-1.0", "/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/", "/usr/include/mirclient" and "/usr/include/harfbuzz". I'm certain that at least some of those are not used with my Makefile. Maybe configure.ac is adding unnecessary headers? I don't know enough about the tool to be sure. I'm aware that I'm asking for a lot. Especially considering that I'm hoping someone else will take on and finish this task in its entirety. Best regards, Norbert _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
