Re: Syntax error while compiling from CVS?

[Cyrille Chepelov <chepelov calixo net>]

Le mar, jui 03, 2001, à 09:20:37 -0300, Dolores Alia de Saravia a écrit:
> > Le lun, jui 02, 2001, à 11:47:29 -0300, Dolores Alia de Saravia a 
> écrit:
> > > I have not been able to compile from CVS; after installing automake 
> 1.4, 
> > >      autoconf 2.50 (>2.13), libtool 1.4, GNU gettext 0.10.38, and 
> doing 
> > >      several other things, I continue getting error messages. 
> >
> > > Now type 'make' to compile dia.
> > > brary
> > > aclocal: configure.in: 163: macro `AM_PATH_LIBART' not found in 
> > > library
> > [snip]
> >
> > stop. These messages from automake just mean that automake doesn't 
> find the
> > .m4 files which define these macros. Please check that you not only 
> have
> > the library packages, but also the *development* side of these 
> packages.
> > (as a rule of thumb, you should be able to grep for any of these 
> macros in
> > /usr/share/aclocal/*/*.m4 and have at least one match. If there's no 
> match,
> > a development package is missing)
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> >     -- Cyrille
> >
> > -- 
> > Grumpf.
>
>        THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I have been able to compile...

I'm glad it does !

> And just for the record: in SUSE 7.1 distribution, I found the libart.m4 
> file as
>
>     /opt/gnome/share/aclocal/libart.m4

This is not FHS compliant (this is either a bug, a non-compliance, or a lack
of following the industry standard..._. As some people from the LSM/RMLL could 
attest, yes, really SUZE has a strange taste... ;-)

FHS mandates that this should have been in /usr/share/aclocal/libart.m4

        -- Cyrille      

-- 
Grumpf.