As build-requirement, we either require
- python2 with python-gobject-base
- python3 with python3-gobject-base
Previously, we would require that a plain `python` gives the desired
interpreter version.
If somebody's "/usr/bin/env python" however points to a different
python version, there was no easy way to change it -- aside
resetting the $PATH variable to some desired "python" binary.
Now, you can specify it during configure:
./configure PYTHON=python3 ...
This especially matters, if you only have python3-gobject-base
installed, you /usr/bin/python is a symlink to python2.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775768
- `make dist` requires --enable-gtk-doc --enable-introspection --with-libnm-glib
- --enable-gtk-doc requires --enable-introspection
- --with-nmcli requires either --enable-introspection or pregenerated
settings-docs.c files from the dist tarball. It does not require
--enable-gtk-doc.
There is a bit of a problem in that --enable-introspection requires
now xsltproc. However, gobject-introspection does itself not depend
on xsltproc. So, more correct might be a special --enable-doc argument,
that combines --enable-introspection --with-xsltproc. Anyway, that
seems to make it more complicated then it already is so just implicitly
(and surprisingly?) require xsltproc with --enable-introspection.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775003
"clients/cli/settings-docs.c" is only required for nmcli. Makefile.am will
check for the existance of the file during the build.
It doesn't matter for SETTING_DOCS_AVAILABLE.
There is on configure option to select for the use of pygobject.
We don't need it. If a user selects --enable-gtk-doc and
--with-introspection, we want to BUILD_SETTING_DOCS.
In this case, just require the python library too.
There is an strange automake warning
Makefile.vapigen:49: warning: $(1) was already defined in condition TRUE, which includes condition ENABLE_VAPIGEN ...
Makefile.am:4: 'Makefile.vapigen' included from here
Makefile.glib:124: ... '$(1)' previously defined here
Makefile.am:1: 'Makefile.glib' included from here
when having
if ENABLE_VAPIGEN
include Makefile.vapigen
endif
That is worked around by removing the "if", which however
requires us to remove the error check in Makefile.vapigen.
