Bug 32299

Repo moved, URL will be available when cron picks it up. It's the autotools branch of: ssh://people.freedesktop.org/~smcv/telepathy-spec.git

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~smcv/telepathy-spec/commit/?h=autotools&id=441717252d3704895068ddc14b2b9423cbe7255d

Can you remind me of the difference between srcdir and top_srcdir?

I'm not sure how I feel about adding autotools to spec, unless I can see it in action. 

If we decide to go down the telepathy-core repo path, I will probably just merge this into that repo, so there's no point in merging it to telepathy-spec master.

If we don't decide to have a telepathy-core repo, I'm slightly scared of driving autotools from CMake. Do you have an example of tp-glib or tp-qt4 using it as a submodule, or should I just try it out myself and come running to you with the pieces if/when I break it?

(In reply to comment #2)
> Can you remind me of the difference between srcdir and top_srcdir?

No difference in this particular project, because it only has one Makefile.am.

top_srcdir is always the (possibly relative) path to the directory containing our configure.ac. (If you're in a nested project with its own configure.ac, like Wocky inside Gabble, then the top_srcdir is the dir containing Wocky's configure.ac, not Gabble's configure.ac.)

srcdir is the (possibly relative) path to the source subdirectory that corresponds to the build subdirectory you're in right now (so in an in-tree build it's always ".").

> If we decide to go down the telepathy-core repo path, I will probably just
> merge this into that repo, so there's no point in merging it to telepathy-spec
> master.

That sounds like a good approach; copying my code will hopefully save you a bit of time, at least.

> If we don't decide to have a telepathy-core repo, I'm slightly scared of
> driving autotools from CMake. Do you have an example of tp-glib or tp-qt4 using
> it as a submodule, or should I just try it out myself and come running to you
> with the pieces if/when I break it?

I certainly had it working in telepathy-glib once, but I've probably lost the branch.

I don't know how it'd hook into CMake: worst case, we keep using the "copy the XML" approach for tp-qt4, or submodule it in but then omit it from the CMake equivalent of SUBDIRS and dist the necessary files by hand (much like we have to do now anyway).

I've updated the branch for current spec.

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