From fb1f70ee05886de87c061c4e7a76a01c3bdbb8dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Sauer <st.kost@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 21:45:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add a check for yelp-tools to autogen.sh.

Also mention this in the README.md.

Fixes #143
---
 README.md  |  4 ++--
 autogen.sh | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6a5117fba..b854260ab 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ modelled after the windows only, closed source application called Buzz.
 ## building from git
 To build use autogen.sh instead of configure. This accept the same options like
 configure. Later one can use autoregen.sh to rerun the bootstrapping.
-To build from git one needs to have gtk-doc and cvs (for autopoint from gettext)
-installed.
+To build from git one needs to have gtk-doc, yelp-tools and cvs (for autopoint
+from gettext) installed.
 
 ## directories
 * docs : design ideas and API reference
diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 9f37e0d17..8a3b7e909 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -128,6 +128,45 @@ version_check ()
   return 1;
 }
 
+path_check ()
+{
+  PACKAGE=$1
+  COMMAND=$2
+  URL=$3
+
+  test -z "$NOCHECK" && {
+    echo -n "  checking for $PACKAGE ... "
+  } || {
+    # we set a var with the same name as the package, but stripped of
+    # unwanted chars
+    VAR=`echo $PACKAGE | sed 's/-//g'`
+    debug "setting $VAR"
+    eval $VAR="$COMMAND"
+    return 0
+  }
+
+  LOC=$(which 2>/dev/null $COMMAND)
+  if test ! -z "$LOC"; then
+    echo "ok."
+    # we set a var with the same name as the package, but stripped of
+    # unwanted chars
+    VAR=`echo $PACKAGE | sed 's/-//g'`
+    debug "setting $VAR"
+    eval $VAR="$COMMAND"
+    return 0
+  else
+    echo "not ok !"
+  fi
+
+  if test ! -z "$URL"; then
+    echo "not found !"
+    echo "You must have $PACKAGE installed to compile $package."
+    echo "Download the appropriate package for your distribution,"
+    echo "or get the source tarball at $URL"
+  fi
+  return 1;
+}
+
 aclocal_check ()
 {
   # normally aclocal is part of automake
@@ -321,6 +360,9 @@ version_check "libtoolize" "libtoolize glibtoolize" \
 version_check "pkg-config" "" \
               "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pkgconfig/" 0 8 0 || DIE=1
 
+path_check "yelp-tools" "yelp-check" \
+           "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/yelp-tools" || DIE=1
+
 die_check $DIE
 
 aclocal_check || DIE=1