[Geany-devel] geany-plugins depends on GIO

[Frank Lanitz]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:58:02 +0100
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:04:12 +0100, Colomban wrote:
> 
> >Le 30/10/2010 13:20, Frank Lanitz a écrit :
> >> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:01:07 +0200
> >> Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:15:14 +0200
> >>> Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> PS: make distcheck on geany-plugins doesn't work, fails on
> >>>> translation extraction, is it a known issue?
> >>>
> >>> Not yet, will have a look. 
> >> 
> >> OK, well. I guess my knowledge about make is too low here to fix
> >> this issue. however, this is the error I can reproduce on my local
> >> test system.
> >> 
> >> make[1]: Entering directory
> >> `/daten/quellen/git/geany-plugins/geany-plugins/geany-plugins-0.20/_build'
> >> Making check in po make[2]: Entering directory
> >> `/daten/quellen/git/geany-plugins/geany-plugins/geany-plugins-0.20/_build/po'
> >> INTLTOOL_EXTRACT=/usr/bin/intltool-extract
> >> srcdir=../../po /usr/bin/intltool-update --gettext-package
> >> geany-plugins --pot xgettext: Öffnen der Datei
> >> »../../po/../updatechecker/src/updatechecker.c« zum Lesen
> >> fehlgeschlagen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden ERROR:
> >> xgettext failed to generate PO template file. Please consult error
> >> message above if there is any. make[2]: *** [geany-plugins.pot]
> >> Fehler 1 make[2]: Leaving directory
> >> `/daten/quellen/git/geany-plugins/geany-plugins/geany-plugins-0.20/_build/po'
> >> make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Fehler 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
> >> `/daten/quellen/git/geany-plugins/geany-plugins/geany-plugins-0.20/_build'
> >> make: *** [distcheck] Fehler 1
> >I'd better understand with LANG=C :D
> >
> >Anyway, I searched a little and found the problem, and it's quite
> >simple (no need to be a make guru): updatechecker is not integrated
> >with the Autotools build system, so it doesn't get into the tarball
> >of make dist. Then, make po fails from this tarball because it uses a
> >file that doesn't exist.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> 
> >I join 2 patches:
> >1) export GEANY_VERSION so it can be used in plugin's Makefiles
> 
> This would make it compiling but not working. At least not as it
> should. If the plugin uses the GEANY_VERSION to detect the version of
> Geany to check against newer versions, this would mean that it always
> checks with a fixed version of Geany: those which was available at
> the system where the plugin was compiled. This can be completely
> independent from the system where Geany with the plugin loaded
> actually runs.
> 
> To solve the problem, I think it'd be necessary to read Geany's
> version at *runtime* to really get the running version and not the
> compiled in GEANY_VERSION macro. To do this, probably a new API
> function is necessary (though I didn't really check if it might be
> possible already).
> 
> 
> I talked with Frank about this already in a private mail, also
> joining a patch to integrate it in the autotools build. Now he has
> two patches to choose :).

Well, I leave it up to you. To be honest I do not care much about
as well as I don't have any clue about the autotools-stuff. So I cannot
say, what's the best way of solve the issue. 

Cheers, 
Frank 
-- 
Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de>
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