Multilib/Tips & tricks

This page aims to collect advices on handling different build systems when doing multilib

Pre-built gtk-doc documentation
Some packages (especially GNOME) include pre-built gtk-doc HTML docs in the source tarball. The gtk-doc Makefile doesn't handle out-of-source builds well, and enabling those cause the pre-built docs not to be installed, or to be generated again.

This issue can be solved via placing a symlink to pre-generated docs inside the build-dir, like:

Installing pre-built gtk-doc docs with out-of-source-build