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This module contains various files needed to bootstrap GNOME modules
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built from git.  It contains the following components:
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 1. A common "autogen.sh" script that can be used to configure a
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    source directory checked out from git.
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 2. Some commonly used macros (quite a small set these days -- macros
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    should be packaged with their respective modules).
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To make use of the common autogen script, create a stub autogen.sh
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script in your module that looks something like this:
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#!/bin/sh
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srcdir=`dirname $0`
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[ -z "$srcdir" ] && srcdir=.
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if [ ! -f "$srcdir/configure.ac" ]; then
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 echo "$srcdir doesn't look like source directory for $PKG_NAME" >&2
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 exit 1
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fi
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which gnome-autogen.sh || {
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	echo "You need to install gnome-common from GNOME Git"
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	exit 1
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}
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. gnome-autogen.sh "$@"
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Then put the following in your configure.ac or configure.in file:
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  AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
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  AC_SUBST([ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS], ["-I $ac_macro_dir \${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}"])
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This will make sure that autoconf macros will be found when you
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rebuild the package without rerunning autogen.sh.
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