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INCLUDES = $(LIBGLADE_CFLAGS)

# build documentation when doing a distcheck.
DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS = --enable-gtk-doc

if HAVE_PYTHON
bin_SCRIPTS = libglade-convert
endif

pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
pkgconfig_DATA = libglade-2.0.pc

...

XMLCATALOG = /etc/xml/catalog

xmldir = $(datadir)/xml/libglade
xml_DATA = glade-2.0.dtd

install-data-local:
        -xmlcatalog --noout --add "system" \
          "http://glade.gnome.org/glade-2.0.dtd" \
          $(xmldir)/glade-2.0.dtd $(XMLCATALOG)

uninstall-local:
        -xmlcatalog --noout --del $(xmldir)/glade-2.0.dtd $(XMLCATALOG)

#small hack to get distcheck to work
clean-local:
        rm -f intl/po2tbl.sed .memdump