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How can I package my gnome-python application using autotools?

April 26, 2017application autotools gnome gnome-python package Python

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How can I package my gnome-python application using autotools?

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I recently packaged a GNOME application written in Python with the autotools, which I chose over distutils purely as a learning exercise. If you fancy giving autotools a go you may find it to be a useful example (including glade, GConf, scrollkeeper, .desktop file and pixmap installation): [bandsaw.sourceforge.net] I found the GNOME Blog autotools files provided a good starting point. The one thing I didn’t find online was up to date information on setting up autogen.sh for use with GNOME. I was targetting GNOME 2.6 and ended up following largely out of date documentation. The correct approach is to checkout the latest version of gnome-common from the GNOME CVS server (don’t use the 2.4.0 version that is packaged with many distributions; it is far too old to provide the right tools) and modify an existing autogen.sh to suit your needs. Band Saw’s should be fine (for GNOME 2.6 at least).