libgnome-dev for DEBIAN
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This is the main package you need for writing GNOME applications.

autoconf macros
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The situation regarding GNOME packages and autoconf macros is a
mess. Packages in the GNOME CVS tree have the .m4 files in a "macros"
directory, spliced in from their position in the CVS tree, and the
"autogen.sh" package will include those.

As part of the library installation, the .m4 files ought to be put in
/usr/share/aclocal, so that they can be picked up by aclocal for
non-GNOME-CVS packages. However, if this is done, the GNOME-CVS
packages will choke when autobuilt, because the .m4 files in "macros"
will be combined with the .m4 files in /usr/share/aclocal- the
developer loses one way or the other.

As a compromise, the .m4 files have been installed in
/usr/share/aclocal/gnome. To use these, you must do 

  aclocal -I /usr/share/aclocal/gnome

when setting up your automake files. One of the GNOME .m4 files will
preserve this -I option in generated maintainer rules, so it should be 
a one-off thing.

Steve Haslam
9th June 1999