GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 694723
Get rid of REBUILD stuff in configure.ac
Last modified: 2017-11-17 15:13:07 UTC
It's a hack. Should be replaced with "missing" calls in Makefile's. I'll get to fix this eventually.
Created attachment 363929 [details] [review] build: Drop --enable-rebuilds configure option It is outdated and no longer effectively used. It was originally in place to prevent rebuilding generated files (from a tarball) if the right build tools (awk, Perl, indent) were not available. However, we no longer use indent, we have hard-required awk for a while, and the only places the @REBUILD@ substitution was still used were for glib-genmarshal, which has recently been rewritten in Python (so no longer depends on whether Perl is available). Drop the whole lot. Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Review of attachment 363929 [details] [review]: I thought I got rid of all this cruft for the Meson build merge, but apparently something survived. Yes to nuking from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
(In reply to Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) from comment #2) > I thought I got rid of all this cruft for the Meson build merge, but > apparently something survived. Apparently Behdad spotted your omission 4.5 years ago, so all’s well. Attachment 363929 [details] pushed as f2c093f - build: Drop --enable-rebuilds configure option