[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] automake: update gtk-doc.m4 to serial 2

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Gustavo Zacarias,

On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 07:45:07 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:

> > I'm not sure exactly, but shouldn't depending on host-pkgconf be the
> > responsibility of each individual package that uses the gtk-doc.m4
> > stuff?
> > 
> > Even though I agree pkgconf is fairly quick to build, I find it odd to
> > have host-automake depend on host-pkgconf if it's only a very limited
> > number of packages that actually use the gtk-doc.m4 stuff that need the
> > host-pkgconf dependency.
> 
> The problem is it wasn't the case for gtk-doc.m4 serial 1, the check and
> need for pkgconfig is done after gtk-doc is enabled, but for serial 2
> some of the checks are done before that.
> So we'd need to find all packages that use gtk-doc.m4 and add it there
> (well, for those that autoreconf, but that would be sloppy since an
> added autoreconf would trigger the need).

Yes, correct, that's my idea. I think it's more correct than globally
adding this host-pkgconf dependency.

Best regards,

Thomas
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