[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60679] build: provide an option to disable icons when building from hg

[Mike Miller]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60679>

                 Summary: build: provide an option to disable icons when
building from hg
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mtmiller
            Submitted on: Thu 27 May 2021 01:46:32 PM PDT
                Category: Configuration and Build System
                Severity: 1 - Wish
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: dev
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

Building from hg currently requires two utilities, icotool and rsvg-convert.
It would be a nice feature to be able to build and run Octave from hg if
desktop icons aren't needed.

This means a new configure option, something like '--disable-icons' or
'--disable-desktop-integration' to avoid even checking for these utilities and
running the build steps. And missing one or both tools should warn and enable
the option, same as we do for '--disable-docs'. And this would also disable
the ability to run 'make dist', since the icons are part of the source
distribution.




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