Rewrote configure.ac according to my new l33t knowledge of autotools, and

[projects/chimara/chimara.git] / configure.ac

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index fbeacd2533e5bdc87923b2fd7fead4997b64bcbf..ea5ccb527f189d94aae59c6953406a61a76304a3 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,38 +1,53 @@
-dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-dnl Created by Anjuta application wizard.
+# configure.ac with sensible comments
 
-AC_INIT(chimara, 0.1)
+### INITIALIZATION ############################################################
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(AC_PACKAGE_NAME, AC_PACKAGE_VERSION)
-AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
-AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
+# Initialize Autoconf 
+# Args: (human-readable package name, package version, bug report address, 
+# tarballname)
+AC_INIT([chimara], [0.1])
+# Sanity check to make sure we are running Autoconf from the right directory
+AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/chimara-glk.c)
+# Initialize Automake
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall])
 
-AC_ISC_POSIX
-AC_PROG_CC
-AM_PROG_CC_STDC
-AC_HEADER_STDC
-AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
-AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
+### DECLARE PROGRAMS ##########################################################
+
+AC_PROG_CC                 # C compiler
+AC_PROG_INSTALL            # Install
+AC_PROG_LIBTOOL            # Libtool
+IT_PROG_INTLTOOL([0.35.0]) # Intltool
+PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG        # pkg_config
+
+### INTERNATIONALIZATION ######################################################
 
-dnl ***************************************************************************
-dnl Internatinalization
-dnl ***************************************************************************
 GETTEXT_PACKAGE=chimara
 AC_SUBST(GETTEXT_PACKAGE)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(GETTEXT_PACKAGE,"$GETTEXT_PACKAGE", [GETTEXT package name])
 AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
-IT_PROG_INTLTOOL([0.35.0])
 
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES([CHIMARA], [gtk+-2.0 >= 2.8 gthread-2.0 gmodule-2.0])
+### CHECK FOR LIBRARIES #######################################################
+
+# Libraries needed to build Chimara library
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES([CHIMARA], [
+       glib-2.0 >= 2.6
+       gtk+-2.0 >= 2.8 
+       gthread-2.0 
+       gmodule-2.0
+])
 AC_SUBST(CHIMARA_CFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(CHIMARA_LIBS)
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES([TEST], [gtk+-2.0 >= 2.8 gmodule-2.0])
+# Libraries needed to build test programs
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES([TEST], [
+       gtk+-2.0 >= 2.8 
+       gmodule-2.0
+])
 AC_SUBST(TEST_CFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(TEST_LIBS)
 
-##################################################
-# Check for gtk-doc.
-##################################################
+### GTK-DOC ###################################################################
+# Don't know what this does yet, it was autogenerated by Anjuta.
+
 AC_ARG_WITH(html-dir, [  --with-html-dir=PATH path to installed docs ])
 if test "x$with_html_dir" = "x" ; then
   HTML_DIR='${datadir}/gtk-doc/html'
@@ -50,7 +65,7 @@ else
   AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
   GTKDOC=false
 fi
-dnl Let people disable the gtk-doc stuff.
+# Let people disable the gtk-doc stuff.
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(gtk-doc,
               [  --enable-gtk-doc  Use gtk-doc to build documentation [default=auto]],
              enable_gtk_doc="$enableval", enable_gtk_doc=auto)
@@ -63,8 +78,14 @@ if test x$enable_gtk_doc = xauto ; then
 fi
 AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_GTK_DOC, test x$enable_gtk_doc = xyes)
 
-AC_OUTPUT([
+# Output platform-specific definitions to config.h
+AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
+# List of other files for Autoconf to output
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([
 Makefile
 src/Makefile
 po/Makefile.in
 ])
+# Do it
+AC_OUTPUT
+