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Hacking on Connection Manager
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Working with the source code repository
=======================================

The repository contains two extra scripts that accomplish the bootstrap
process. One is called "bootstrap" which is the basic scripts that uses the
autotools scripts to create the needed files for building and installing.
It makes sure to call the right programs depending on the usage of shared or
static libraries or translations etc.

The second program is called "bootstrap-configure". This program will make
sure to properly clean the repository, call the "bootstrap" script and then
call configure with proper settings for development. It will use the best
options and pass them over to configure. These options normally include
the enabling the maintainer mode and the debugging features.

So while in a normal source project the call "./configure ..." is used to
configure the project with its settings like prefix and extra options. In
case of bare repositories call "./bootstrap-configure" and it will bootstrap
the repository and calls configure with all the correct options to make
development easier.

In case of preparing for a release with "make distcheck", don't use
bootstrap-configure since it could export development specific settings.

So the normal steps to checkout, build and install such a repository is
like this:

  Checkout repository
    # git-clone git://git.moblin.org/projects/connman.git
    # cd connman

  Configure and build
    # ./bootstrap-configure
    # make

  Check installation
    # make install DESTDIR=$PWD/x
    # find x
    # rm -rf x

  Check distribution
    # make distcheck

  Final installation
    # sudo make install

  Remove autogenerated files
    # make maintainer-clean


Generating source code documentation
====================================

The source code is annotated using the gtk-doc style documentation. This
allows an easy way of generating API documentation. The "bootstrap-configure"
script will use the "--enable-gtk-doc" configure to enable the generation of
the documentation.

To make the gtk-doc process work, the gtk-doc tools need to be installed.
Every distribution should provide a package for this, but the naming of the
package might be different:

  Ubuntu/Debian
    # apt-get install gtk-doc-utils

  Fedora
    # yum install gtk-doc

In case "bootstrap-configure" is not used, the manual steps for generating
the documentation files are like this:

  Configuring the repository
    # ./configure --enable-gtk-doc

  Generate the documentation
    # cd doc && make

  View documentation
    # firefox doc/html/index.html