[GTK] Fails to build docs with non-standard build directories

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78118

* gtk/common.py:
(get_build_path): add comment to document changes done in r107098,
as requested by the reviewer and forgotten by me.

git-svn-id: http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk@107138 268f45cc-cd09-0410-ab3c-d52691b4dbfc

diff --git a/Tools/ChangeLog b/Tools/ChangeLog
index 7f32b0f..2cccfa2 100644 (file)
--- a/Tools/ChangeLog
+++ b/Tools/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2012-02-08  Gustavo Noronha Silva  <gns@gnome.org>
+
+        [GTK] Fails to build docs with non-standard build directories
+        https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78118
+
+        * gtk/common.py:
+        (get_build_path): add comment to document changes done in r107098,
+        as requested by the reviewer and forgotten by me.
+
 2012-02-08  Adam Barth  <abarth@webkit.org>
 
         Stop importing with_statement from the mysterious future

diff --git a/Tools/gtk/common.py b/Tools/gtk/common.py
index f8c47b6..73aafc3 100644 (file)
--- a/Tools/gtk/common.py
+++ b/Tools/gtk/common.py
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ def get_build_path():
     if is_valid_build_directory(build_dir):
         return build_dir
 
+    # Debian and Ubuntu build both flavours of the library (with gtk2
+    # and with gtk3); they use directories build-2.0 and build-3.0 for
+    # that, which is not handled by the above cases; we check that the
+    # directory where we are called from is a valid build directory,
+    # which should handle pretty much all other non-standard cases.
     build_dir = os.getcwd()
     if is_valid_build_directory(build_dir):
         return build_dir