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diff --git a/README b/README deleted file mode 100644 index 611a0a05..00000000 --- a/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -This directory contains sample files that should be in pretty much every -GNOME application. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -To make this work both for GNOME Applications inside and outside the -GNOME CVS Tree I did the following: - -* There is an `INSIDE_GNOME_COMMON' automake conditional which is defined - in two places: - - - macros/aclocal-includes.m4 defines this to always be false. - - - gnome-common/configure.in does not include anything from macros and - defines this to be true. - -* We use this automake conditional in the macros/Makefile.am to install - $(MACROS), autogen.sh, gnome-common.m4 and a newly created gnome-macros.dep - in `$(datadir)/aclocal/gnome'. - - Since aclocal doesn't look in subdirectories we can safely install them - there even when compiling from CVS. - - Also, there is no need to make any change to any existing application - in the GNOME CVS Tree - really fine ... - -* When we're outside the GNOME CVS Tree we simply need to tell aclocal that - it should also look in `$(datadir)/aclocal/gnome' and it will find all - the macros. - - The is a `gnome-skel' module in CVS that can be used as a starting point - when writing a new GNOME Application that should be used outside CVS. - -February 4, 1999, -Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org> |