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For rebuilding from source, here are some guidelines to follow. For
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developers who may be adding functionality to the program, be sure to read
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the last section of this documen: "FINAL WORDS".
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SUPER-SHORT VERSION:
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You should be able to just run "./configure && make". But if you make any
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significant changes or experience any problems, you may wish to run
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"./autogen.sh && make" to regenerate everything.
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This will call aclocal if necessary, then automake, which creates
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Makefile.in from Makefile.am rules. Then it calls autoconf, which will
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generate configure from configure.in and the Makefile.{am,in} sources.
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Finally, autogen calls configure to generate the final files necessary for
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building gramps.
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SHORT VERSION:
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Execute:
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aclocal
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automake --add-missing --gnu && autoconf && make
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HTML documentation is built from SGML sources via jw. It is known to work
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with docbook-utils-0.6.9. There is a problem with 0.6.10, which seems to
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have some messed up dsl files. If you have difficulty building the HTML
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documentation with your version of jw, then remove "doc" from the SUBDIRS
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list in the top-level Makefile and send a report of where the failure was to
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the gramps-devel list. This distribution is tested with the style sheets
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and PNG support from the gnome-doc-tools-2-1 package.
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MORE INFO: Version and package info is now set in configure.in through a
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call to the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro. The results are stored in variables
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PACKAGE and VERSION, which then get substituted wherever necessary.
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(gramps.sh, gramps.spec, src/const.py, asst. Makefiles, etc.) We also
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manually set the RELEASE variable for setting things like "pre" or minor
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bugfix issues. * Note: Using @VERSION@ in the manuals has the advantage that
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the current manual always states that it describes current version of
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gramps. The disadvantage is that this becomes misleading if the manual
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isn't regularly updated. Keep in mind this is GRAMPS version and not
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*manual* version. Another problem is that the standard GNOME SGML
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documentation make rules (sgmldocs.make) have their own rule, but automake
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generates its own rule and this introduces a conflict.
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"make (un)install" now runs scrollkeeper-update to ensure
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documentation database is up to date. Scrollkeeper v. > 0.1.4 should in
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principle work, v. > 0.2 should see no problems.
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VERBOSE, UGLY DETAILS FOR DEVELOPERS:
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Using automake/autoconf adds many, MANY build targets to the makefiles.
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Basically, we only care about the main and "install" targets. However,
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there are some others that bear further notice:
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* make dist -- will create a lovely gramps-{VERSION}.tar.gz archive with
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everything needed to distribute, including the HTML documentation just in
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case Joe User doen't know about or have a compatable jw/db2html. After
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running "make dist" you can create the rpms using
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"rpm -ta gramps-{VERSION}.tar.gz". How nice is that?
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* make clean -- only gets rid of byte-compiled stuff like .so files.
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* make distclean -- improves on clean by eliminating configuration (*.in,
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config.*, Makefiles, and converted documentation.) stuff. This is generally
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what you (as a developer) will want for testing "fresh" compiles.
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* make trans -- We add this one on our own for building the template.po file.
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Another caveat of the automake mantra is that new/overriding make
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targets/rules/defines should generally go in the Makefile.am files rather
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than Makefile.in.
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* Note: Another beauty of the automake mechanism (and having automake macros
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in the configure script) is that once the scripts have been made, a change
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to any .am file will trigger "make" to regenerate the Makefile.in/configure
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scripts as appropriate. It is _very_ convenient.
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FINAL WORDS: automake "thinks" of a distribution in terms of "SOURCES", such
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as raw C code, "COMPILED OBJECTS" like executables and libraries, and
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"DATA", such as images, scripts, and documentation. Thus, for gramps we
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concentrate on DATA-type objects. We must tell automake what objects are
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important. We do this by adding to the EXTRA_DIST variable in the various
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Makefile.am files before running automake.
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