Re: [Gtk-osx-users] [gtk-osx-users] GTK docs shouldn't be required

[John R. <jr...@ce...>]

> On Dec 15, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Philip Ries <ph...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I needed to build gtkosxapplication to run RawTherapee. I cloned from git and encountered this error when running autoreconf.
> 
> $ autoreconf -i
> glibtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
> glibtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
> ...
> docs/Makefile.am:1: error: ENABLE_GTK_DOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> automake: error: cannot open < gtk-doc.make: No such file or directory
> 
> After some amount of googling, I arrived at a two-step solution:
> 
> 1) Install the brew package named "gtk-doc" (fixes first error).
> 2) Create a dummy gtk-doc.make text file comprised of this line (fixes second error):
> 
> EXTRA_DIST=
> 
> This worked. I'm writing the user group, however, because this seems like a bug I'm working around. Is this behavior designed? The README (https://github.com/jralls/gtk-mac-integration <https://github.com/jralls/gtk-mac-integration>) implies that documentation isn't even built by default.
> 
> I'm running OS X 10.10.1 with autoreconf 2.69.
> 

Why is it a bug that you didn’t round up all of the prerequisites before trying to build gtk-mac-integration? How did you manage to build gtk+ without gtk-doc?
You should have used autogen.sh instead of autoreconf; the former runs gtkdocize for you, which creates gtk-doc.make.

Regards,
John Ralls