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

[Nicholas Little <arealityfarbetween googlemail com>]

Hi Nicolas,

Yeah, banshee has historically been difficult to build but there's no
reason it should ever have been like that. This was due to its
configure.ac and m4 collection - I don't know why but project
developers seem to have taken the auto out of autotools, you may have
heard it called autohell for that reason, effective misuse of tools,
#Fail.

I've done my best to fix that - those changes are in my master branch,
your tip should be at a14fa807f. In which case you should need no more
than this to successfully build from a fresh clone:

git submodule update --init
autoreconf -fvis
./configure
make
make install

As long as you don't change branch or update the configure.ac/m4 files
then the first two steps can be skipped afterwards.

On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 18:57, 7even <banshee2 site7even de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have compiled Banshee 2 years ago and use these binaries since then. I can
> remember that it was kind of hard to get it running and I had to disable
> some modules that didn't worked for me.
>
> There were some minor fixes and improvements I made to the code - the main
> reason was a performance improvement/fix for the sql queries I discussed
> somewhere here as well.
>
> Just checked if I made notes on how to get it working, but found none.
>
> Due to the PITA it was to get it working I avoided to build a new version
> since then. But if someone starts a guide somewhere, this may change my mind
> and I may contribute - though I won't promise anything!
>
> Thanks all that contributed to this great piece of software!
> Nicolas
>
>
>
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