[gst-devel] gtk-doc in plugins

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

> > Yeah, that would be nice - but I doubt it will happen.  gtk-doc is just
> > too GLib-specific, so I don't think the automake people will want to
> > support it, let alone work on it.
> 
> Better would be to have generic automake add-ons.  I've wanted to add
> classes of build types to automake for several reasons, including
> building kernel modules and for things like specialib.  For libtool,
> it's all hard-coded in automake itself, which is why it works.  Using
> Makefile snippets is less than ideal.

Yeah, but then again libtool really needs to be integrated well because
it replaces/extends a key operation in the make process.  For things
like gtk-doc the changes are a lot less invasive, and you can go a long
way with makefile includes if you take some hints from the autogenerated
Makefile bits based on Makefile.am

Kernel modules would be somewhere in between, and aren't too hard either
thanks to your .m4's

Anyway, this is gst-devel, not automake-wishlist, so I'll shut up now :)

Thomas


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