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Slightly changed the README, we are not really tied to GNOME.
Added more optional libs to REQUIREMENTS. someone should complete the URLS.
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Add comments to many (but not all :( ) AC_DEFINES in configure scripts.
Add note about debian packages for building documentation.
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Abstract the plugin-srcdir installation idiottest into a separate file,
and include it from the include Makefile.am, to ensure that it gets
called at the start of a make install process, not after the whole thing
has happened.
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Add rules to ensure that the libgst.la and libgstelements.la exist when
trying to link the scanner with them.
Fix mkdirs so that they don't fall over if directories already exist.
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Add AS and ASFLAGS to configure.base, fixing the build with automake 1.4g
AS is defined in a hacky way: I've asked on the automake list for help
doing this properly.
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Automatically generate a patched automake if needed, and put instructions
in the README about how to use such a patched automake.
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* create a configure.base file, containing the contents of
configure.{in,ac}, with those lines specific to one file prepended by
"SUBSTFOR configure.in:" or "SUBSTFOR configure.ac:" appropriately.
* Add lines to autogen.sh to generate configure.in and configure.ac
automatically from this file. (Very simple sed scripts)
* Remove configure.in and configure.ac
This shouldn't cause any problems to anyone, and should make it easy to do
work on configure scripts by just working on configure.base.
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More small changes to bring the two scripts closer together.
Turned off building docs by default in configure.ac.
Only diffs are now essential due to changes from autoconf 2.13 to 2.50.
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Deal more gracefully with being either unable to check that automake is
patched (will now just give a small warning), or finding that automake
definitely isn't patched (will give a big loud warning recommend stopping
the build and sleep briefly to give the user a chance to read the message).
Will eventually try to do the build anyway though.
Also, don't abort if autoconf or automake return error codes: they both
seem able to do so even when having produced viable results.
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Add checks for appropriate versions of automake.
Add check that automake has been patched if it is a version which requires
a patch.
Please check that this doesn't cause problems: it's a bit of a hairy test,
so I might well have mucked it up and broken some people's build systems.
Hope not, though. ;-)
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Fix differences between configure.in and configure.ac which were trivial
or due merely to formatting differences. diff can now be used to see only
the significant differences, which should be helpful in keeping these
two files in sync.
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Update Makefile.am.future - a replacement for Makefile.am which uses
features present in recent versions of automake (>1.4d) to avoid horrendous
hackery.
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Simplify alsa checking: we can use the standard AM_PATH_ALSA macro to
check that we don't have alsa 0.9.x: we just need to specify something
for ACTION_NOT_FOUND to override the default AC_MSG_ERROR behaviour, so
I've put a colon for ACTION_NOT_FOUND. ;-)
Also, update the alsa macro in acinclude with the latest from the alsa
project CVS.
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Added some caps != NULL checks.
Patched up a problem with the thread handling when the iteration fails.
Cleaned up the output of -inspect a tiny bit.
