Bug 459978 – autotools.eclass: eautoreconf should allow disabling gtkdocize

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: UNCONFIRMED ---

[Description Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2013-03-02 13:18:40 UTC]

Starting with webkit-gtk+-1.11.90, `eautoreconf` is failing in the `gtkdocize` phase, because required macro GTK_DOC_CHECK is not located inside the configure.ac file anymore and has been moved into Source/autotools/FindDependencies.m4 file.

The project's `autogen.sh` uses following autoreconf command to initialize the autotools stack from clean git checkout:

autoreconf --verbose --install -I Source/autotools $ACLOCAL_FLAGS|| exit $?

and this doesn't seem to be calling gtkdocize at all. Therefore it should be possible to disable this step somehow.

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2013-03-02 13:35:29 UTC]

So, use AT_M4DIR="Source/autotools" eautoreconf

[Comment 2 Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2013-03-02 13:46:12 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> So, use AT_M4DIR="Source/autotools" eautoreconf

We already did that before, but now it breaks like this:

 * Running eautoreconf in '/home/tmp/portage/net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.11.90-r300/work/webkitgtk-1.11.90' ...
 * Running gtkdocize --copy ...                                                                          [ !! ]

 * Failed Running gtkdocize !


And error from gtkdocize is following:
[snip]
***** gtkdocize *****
***** PWD: /home/tmp/portage/net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.11.90-r300/work/webkitgtk-1.11.90
***** gtkdocize --copy

gtkdocize: GTK_DOC_CHECK not called in configure.ac
[/snip]

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2013-03-27 10:11:14 UTC]

this blocks epiphany-3.8

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2014-11-15 07:13:05 UTC]

*** Bug 463282 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***