Remove autotools.

Remove autotools completely.
Modify autotols related cmake files.
Update README.

Author: usamimikamen-sk

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -53,10 +53,6 @@ else()
 endif()
 option (WITH_MOBI "Enable build rules for Mobipocket document format" OFF)
 
-# If AUTOTOOLS_IN_DIST is OFF, then 'dist' wont run autogen.sh, and 'distcheck'
-# won't run the autotools distcheck. Note that various Makefile.am files are still
-# included in the dist when this is OFF. I'll fix that at some point.
-option (AUTOTOOLS_IN_DIST "Add autotools support to distribution tarballs." ON)
 # ############################################################
 # Following parameters can equally be set using -D switches on the CMake command line.
 # Set font dirs and font for Russian pdf documents
@@ -185,21 +181,6 @@ endif()
 add_subdirectory (guide)
 add_subdirectory (help)
 
-if(AUTOTOOLS_IN_DIST)
-    set(autotoolsfiles
-        configure.ac
-        Makefile.am
-        gnucash-docs.spec.in
-        chm.make
-        epub.make
-        mobi.make
-        omf.make
-        pdf.make
-        xmldocs.make)
-
-    add_to_dist(${autotoolsfiles})
-endif()
-
 file(GLOB_RECURSE extrafiles
     RELATIVE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
     cmake/* fonts/* stylesheet/* xsl/* docbook/*)
@@ -231,7 +212,6 @@ add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${DIST_FILE}.gz ${DIST_FILE}.bz2
            -D GNUCASH_SOURCE_DIR=${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}
            -D BUILD_SOURCE_DIR=${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
            "-Ddist_files=\"${dist_files}\""
-           -D AUTOTOOLS_IN_DIST=${AUTOTOOLS_IN_DIST}
            -D SHELL=${SHELL}
            -P ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/MakeDist.cmake
 
@@ -246,7 +226,6 @@ add_custom_target(distcheck DEPENDS dist
             -D CMAKE_MODULE_PATH=${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake
             -D PACKAGE_PREFIX=${PACKAGE_PREFIX}
             -D GNUCASH_SOURCE_DIR=${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}
-            -D AUTOTOOLS_IN_DIST=${AUTOTOOLS_IN_DIST}
             -D SHELL=${SHELL}
             -P ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/MakeDistCheck.cmake
         )

Makefile.am

@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ Requirements
 * cmake with
 ** ninja or
 ** make
-or
-* autotools (deprecated)
 
 * libxml2
 * libxslt [Debian packed the required xsltproc in a separate package, 
@@ -105,17 +103,6 @@ For cmake the commands are
   # or, if you need mobi
   cmake -DWITH_MOBI=ON [options…]
 
-For the deprecated autotools system the commands are:
-  cd gnucash-docs
-  ./autogen.sh
-  mkdir build && cd build
-  # If you don't need mobi
-  ../configure
-  # or, if you need mobi
-  ../configure --with-mobi
-
-=> This will tell you if you are missing some required tools.
-
 To generate the documentation in html format, run
 
   make html
@@ -159,28 +146,6 @@ For example:
 will generate the html version of the help document in all supported
 languages.
 
-- Autotools (deprecated)
-Go into the directory for that subset and run the above make commands
-from there. For example to only generate the English concepts guide:
-
-  cd guide/C
-  make html
-
-or
-
-  cd guide/C
-  make pdf
-
-or
-
-  cd guide/C
-  make epub
-
-or
-
-  cd guide/C
-  make mobi
-
 depending on the output format you require.
 
 * running xmllint

README

@@ -38,12 +38,6 @@ function (add_gnc_doc_targets docname entities)
       add_mobi_target(${docname} ${lang})
     endif()
 
-    if(AUTOTOOLS_IN_DIST)
-        set(autotoolsfiles
-            Makefile.am
-            ${docname}-${lang}.omf)
-    endif()
-
     file(GLOB_RECURSE figures_dist
         RELATIVE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
         figures/*.png figures/*.svg)
@@ -52,7 +46,6 @@ function (add_gnc_doc_targets docname entities)
         CMakeLists.txt
         ${docname}.xml
         ${entities}
-        ${autotoolsfiles}
         ${figures_dist})
 
 endfunction()