xfce4-dev-tools

The Xfce development tools are a collection of tools and macros for Xfce developers and people that want to build Xfce from Git In addition it contains the Xfce developer’s handbook.

xfce-build containerized build environment

This project also contains the code to build and deploy xfce-build to the xfce-build area on Docker Hub. This container is the build environment used by Xfce to build the various projects. It can also be used as your own build environment as follows:

docker run --rm -u $(id -u ${USER}):$(id -g ${USER}) \
--volume $(pwd):/tmp xfce/xfce-build:master /bin/bash \
-c "cd /tmp; ./autogen.sh && make distcheck"

The steps to build the container are encoded in the [Dockerfile](Dockerfile) in this repository, and is built via the build job in [.gitlab-ci.yml](.gitlab-ci.yml).

CI templates for Xfce

The [CI folder](ci/) contains the build_project.yml template for building the various Xfce projects, as well as supporting scripts such as build_libs.sh which handles building any needed dependencies. This helps us avoid repeating the same build code in each project.

Release notes for 4.15.0

[Please note that this is a development release.]

  • New macro XDT_VERSION_INIT(SEMVER[, TAG])

This macro takes care of setting up the version numbering. It will define the following macros based on SEMVER and TAG:

  • xdt_version

  • xdt_version_major

  • xdt_version_minor

  • xdt_version_micro

  • xdt_version_tag

  • xdt_version_build

  • xdt_debug_default

If TAG isn’t specified, the xdt_version_tag and xdt_version_git will be empty and xdt_debug_default will be set to “minimum”, otherwise the xdt_version_build will contain a git hash and xdt_debug_default will be set to “yes”

Example usage:

XDT_VERSION_INIT([4.15.3],[git])
AC_INIT([xfce4-someproject], [xdt_version()])
...
XDT_FEATURE_DEBUG([xdt_debug_default])

  • XDT_I18N macro will now automatically find the linguas if none are

specified during the autoconf run.

  • Install m4 macros in default search dir. This makes autoconf find the

macros by default.

By setting version via XDT_VERSION_INIT and using XDT_I18N without arguments, this is no longer necessary to use a separate configure.ac.in and a plain configure.ac can be used ! A big thank to Natanael Copa (ncopa) for his work on this part !

  • xfce4-dev-tools now also handle the CI (docker container,

.gitlab-ci.yml templates files etc) on our new gitlab instance. A merge request or a push to master to any of our projects automatically trigger a build. This will help us to catch errors quicker and have better quality. Thanks to Jason Yavorska and Simon Steinbeiss.

  • New helpers are also available (xfce-get-release-notes,

xfce-get-translations, xfce-update-news) to help our maintainers to do releases

Latest Release

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Previous Releases

Source Code Repository

https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-dev-tools

Reporting Bugs

  • [[:xfce:xfce4-dev-tools:bugs|Reporting Bugs]] – Open bug reports and how to report new bugs

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