Re: [Banshee-List] Installing 2.9.1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected in autogen.sh

[Nicholas Little <arealityfarbetween googlemail com>]

On 12 December 2017 at 17:22, Sharky <simondedman gmail com> wrote:
> Nick sincere thanks again for all your help before.
> I've recently built a new system with a fresh xubuntu 17.10 and am minded to
> try this again, however I'm reminded of something you said back in
> September:
>
> "Ps. When the PPA is setup it really will be just a case of executing
> apt-get build-dep banshee"
>
> Just thought I'd ask if there has been any progress on that? (he says,
> crossing fingers).

Sadly, no not yet. That's not to say there hasn't been any development
though. master branch has moved along a little and I've received a few
patches from a fellow GitHub user too.

At the moment if you perform the `apt-get build-dep` command I'm
pretty sure it'll pull in older libraries as 2.9.x was never really
declared stable, if I remember correctly, so in the interest of
keeping your fresh system fairly clean it might be best to install the
required *-dev packages by hand. Provided you've got autotools
installed there shouldn't be that many.

Since you've had a break I'd definitely recommend checking out the
feature/build branch and trying out the new configure script. It
should be a lot more forgiving than the one on master branch, if you
don't pass any switches then it should automatically determine what it
can build based on what you have on your system. Some switches have
changed names so invoke `./configure --help` for details.

> Also having come to the messageboard I noticed my last message was never
> accepted for some reason - apologies if it looked like I just fell off the
> map and never said thanks.

I just assumed you had gotten it all working.

Round Two, Ding! ;)

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