Re: libtasn1 build-error with gtk-doc-tools 1.26 (gtkdoc-mktmpl is no longer available)

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Andreas Metzler <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Making all in reference
>> make[5]: Entering directory '/build/1st/libtasn1-6-4.12/doc/reference'
>>   DOC   Scanning header files
>>   DOC   Rebuilding template files
>> /bin/bash: gtkdoc-mktmpl: command not found
>> Makefile:1240: recipe for target 'tmpl-build.stamp' failed
>> make[5]: *** [tmpl-build.stamp] Error 127
>
>> Find attached a patch against git HEAD to fix this. If you are not happy
>> with the requirement for gtk-doc-tools 1.25 I can repost without the
>> version.xml removal.
>
> Hello,
>
> Just remembered that there is some ugliness. This differs from the
> gtk-doc example:
>
> +gtkdoc-check.test: Makefile
> +       $(AM_V_GEN)echo "#!/bin/sh -e" > $@; \
> +               echo "$(GTKDOC_CHECK_PATH) || echo ERROR: gtk-check-failed" 
> >> $@; \
>
> The upstream example really fails:
>
> +gtkdoc-check.test: Makefile
> +       $(AM_V_GEN)echo "#!/bin/sh -e" > $@; \
> +               echo "$(GTKDOC_CHECK_PATH) || exit 1" >> $@; \
>
> I hadn't got the time knowledge to fix the errors.

Unfortunately me neither, and the generated reference guide seems
problematic. Unless someone would step up to maintain that part,
wouldn't be better to drop gtk-doc reference guide generation?

regards,
Nikos