Bye, bye

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> As forced by Brian and Jasper, I've reorganized the autobuild 
> framework into a single module xfce4-dev-tools, so we can safely 
> remove autogenerated files from CVS now.

hah!  we didn't force you to create xfce4-dev-tools.  that was because 
you're too anal to allow anything to be done half-assed.  (note: not a 
criticism.)

> I'm still experimenting with the xdt-autogen script, so prepare for 
> possible breakage. But I thought its better to have it in CVS already, 
> so people can test it and blame me for bugs. Same goes for M4 macros, 
> tho they should work fine, but no promises.

the old autogen.sh allowed you to set the env var NOCONFIGURE=1, and it 
wouldn't run configure for you.  any chance of adding this to 
xdt-autogen?  i'd like to add back my makefile rule to the toplevel 
Makefile.am that checks if configure.ac is newer than configure, and 
runs autogen if so.  but i don't want autogen to run configure, since 
make will take care of that, and it won't be a bother to make sure 
configure gets passed the proper arguments.

also, XDT_XFCE_PANEL_PLUGIN() and XDT_XFCE_MCS_PLUGIN() don't appear to 
work - that is, they look like they just return 
$libdir/xfce4/(panel-plugins|mcs-plugins).  ah yes, i note this line in 
xdt-xfce.m4:
$1_PLUGINSDIR=$libdir/xfce4/panel-plugins
and also:
$1_PLUGINSDIR=$libdir/xfce4/mcs-plugins
seems like it should be substituting the output of "pkg-config 
(xfce4-panel-1.0|xfce-mcs-manager) --variable=pluginsdir".

random gotcha for everyone else: BM_I18N() and XDT_I18N() don't take the 
same arguments!  leave out the package name argument and just have an 
arg for the language list (or tack the package name on the end as arg 2, 
but it's not necessary unless GETTEXT_PACKAGE should be different from 
the tarball name).  it took me a while to figure out why the configure 
script was thinking i wanted to build for a language called "xfdesktop".

otherwise, kickass.  it's great to have all this stuff in one place 
now.  and my tree is thrilled to ditch all the atogenerated files.  
thanks benny!

    -brian