GNU bug report logs - #37850
Glib documentation is missing

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>, 37850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37850: Glib documentation is missing
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:38:13 +0200

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Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> writes:

> Installing the GLib documentation now requires 'gtk-doc' at build time:
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> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/blob/master/meson_options.txt

Thanks for looking into this!

> 'gtk-doc' unsurprisingly depends on GLib, so I'm not sure what the best
> approach is.

What about the following:

1. Turn our current glib into glib-minimal.

2. Build gtk-doc against glib-minimal.

3. Define a new glib package that inherits from glib-minimal and adds
gtk-doc as native-inputs so that we can restore the "doc" output.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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