Use of USE_GNOME2_MACROS is deprecated in GNOME 3 and produced this
warning:
$ ./autogen.sh
/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
...
***Warning*** USE_GNOME2_MACROS is deprecated, you may remove it from autogen.sh
...
It's use appears to have been removed first from GNOME 2.8 with this
commit from 2004:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/?id=ea9e85851445efa0135c3f8d08c3d1ea53760d91
delete some files that were unused after the reorganisation
The oldest supported distribution is RHEL / CentOS 6 which is using
gnome-common-2.28.0 from 2009. Therefore unconditionally remove the
USE_GNOME2_MACROS setting.
Also confirmed that it makes no difference by running ./autogen.sh with
and without USE_GNOME2_MACROS being set. The produced GParted build
trees were the same. Therefore the release and executable can't be
affected.
If the gnome-doc-utils package isn't installed and you try to compile
GParted from git it will fail with this:
$ ./autogen.sh
/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
Cannot find file: gnome-doc-utils.make
You need to install gnome-doc-utils
After installing the gnome-doc-utils package the same error will be
reported again unless you also update the locate database.
Instead query the full path to the gnome-doc-utils.make file from the
gnome-doc-utils' pkg-config metadata.
Closes Bug #702040 - very strange gnome-doc-utils check in gparted
Mike Fleetwood