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

[Nicolas Krzywinski <banshee2 site7even de>]

Hi Nicholas,

its great to hear that there are others active for banshee development!

I tried your master branch with a fresh clone, but sadly its not working.

My gettext version is too old (0.19.7), but this was easy to fix in configure.ac:167-168

make fails now with this error:

me@mysys ~/dev/banshee-arfbtwn $ make
Making all in build
Making all in pkg-config
Making all in m4
  MCS   gconf-schema-extractor.exe
  MCS   translator-extractor.exe
  MCS   ../build/dll-map-verifier.exe
  MCS   addin-xml-string-extractor.exe
  MCS   gobject-intptr-ctor-verifier.exe
Making all in data
Making all in audio-profiles
/usr/bin/msgfmt: cannot locate ITS rules for aac.xml.in
Makefile:732: die Regel für Ziel „aac.xml“ scheiterte
make[3]: *** [aac.xml] Fehler 1
Makefile:683: die Regel für Ziel „all-recursive“ scheiterte
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
Makefile:669: die Regel für Ziel „all-recursive“ scheiterte
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
Makefile:597: die Regel für Ziel „all“ scheiterte
make: *** [all] Fehler 2
me@mysys ~/dev/banshee-arfbtwn $

I have no clue what this error is talking about. The only thing I found is this: 
https://github.com/hhfeuer/Gentoo-Gnome-3.28-X/issues/14, but this seems to be a different case. At least it 
didn't helped to install libpolkit-gtk-mate-1-0 (my closest guess).

Next, I opened the project in Monodevelop and there all the library references weren't working again, that 
didn't worked last time as well. I cannot remember what this problem was about, but that I had some hard 
times to figure this out.

If you have any suggestions I will try them out and I will write them down this time... ;-)

Thank you,

Nicolas

Am 02.02.19 um 15:02 schrieb Nicholas Little via banshee-list:
> 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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