1 This directory contains sample files that should be in pretty much every
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6 To make this work both for GNOME Applications inside and outside the
7 GNOME repository tree I did the following:
9 * There is an `INSIDE_GNOME_COMMON' automake conditional which is defined
12 - macros/aclocal-includes.m4 defines this to always be false.
14 - gnome-common/configure.in does not include anything from macros and
15 defines this to be true.
17 * We use this automake conditional in the macros/Makefile.am to install
18 $(MACROS), autogen.sh, gnome-common.m4 and a newly created gnome-macros.dep
19 in `$(datadir)/aclocal/gnome'.
21 Since aclocal doesn't look in subdirectories we can safely install them
22 there even when compiling from the repository.
24 Also, there is no need to make any change to any existing application
25 in the GNOME repository tree - really fine...
27 * When we're outside the GNOME repository tree, we simply need to tell aclocal
28 that it should also look in `$(datadir)/aclocal/gnome' and it will find all
31 There is a `gnome-skel' module in the repository that can be used as a
32 starting point when writing a new GNOME application that should be used
33 outside the repository.
36 Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org>