Re: [gnome-love] autoconf macro issues

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

Hi,

Don't know exactly what the problem is, but did you run "jhbuild 
rootstrap" to build all the necessary stuff for building gnome and 
"jhbuild sanitycheck" to see if you have all necessary packages installed.

Also this guide [1] might help you.

Jaap


[1] http://www.gnome.org/~newren/tutorials/developing-with-gnome/html/

Christian Kirbach wrote:
> I've decided to enter the brave Gnome developer world and build from 
> cvs  by jhbuild.
> I am running Debian Sarge (indeed, freshly released)
>
> I have come across several autoconf macro issues, but I couldn't find 
> out  how to resolve
> the last one while building gnome-vfs:
>
> -----
> Checking for forbidden M4 macros...
> ***Error***: some autoconf macros required to build GNOME VFS
>   were not found in your aclocal path, or some forbidden
>   macros were found.  Perhaps you need to adjust your
>   ACLOCAL_FLAGS?
> -----
>
> As of now I have installed everything autoconf related and also tried 
> to  configure with
> some packages removed - to no avail.
>
> I am kindly asking for -help- ...