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+# Helper class to pull in the right gtk-doc dependencies and disable
+# gtk-doc.
+#
+# Long-term it would be great if this class could be toggled between
+# gtk-doc-stub-native and the real gtk-doc-native, which would enable
+# re-generation of documentation.  For now, we'll make do with this which
+# packages up any existing documentation (so from tarball builds).
+
+# The documentation directory, where the infrastructure will be copied.
+# gtkdocize has a default of "." so to handle out-of-tree builds set this to $S.
+GTKDOC_DOCDIR ?= "${S}"
+
+DEPENDS_append = " gtk-doc-stub-native"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF_append = "\
+  --disable-gtk-doc \
+  --disable-gtk-doc-html \
+  --disable-gtk-doc-pdf \
+"
+
+do_configure_prepend () {
+	( cd ${S}; gtkdocize --docdir ${GTKDOC_DOCDIR} )
+}
+
+inherit pkgconfig