Re: [evince] Need help to start contribution

[Sitaram Shelke <sitaramshelke gmail com>]

Hi everyone,
So I was able to build evince 3.18.2 successfully. Got some issues
like the previous one (autopoint, thank you @Germán Poo-Caamaño for
the tips.) but fixed them by downloading the required packages and
libraries. So what should I try to do next? any suggestions?


On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Germán Poo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org> wrote:
> It seems to me you are using Ubuntu, Debian or some derivative of them.
>
> Which version of the distribution are you using?
>
> First, I would try:
>
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep evince gobject-introspection at-spi2-core
>
>
> > 2. jhbuild sysdeps --install
> >   It gave me the following output:
> >     I: Installing dependencies on system: libtiff rdflib llvm
> >     I: Using apt-file to search for providers; this may be slow.
> >  Please
> > wait.
> >     I: No native package found for libtiff (/usr/include/tiff.h)
> >     I: No native package found for llvm (/usr/include/llvm-c/Core.h)
> >     I: Nothing to install
>
> Try installing libtiff5-dev, llvm-dev (if apt-get build-dep did not
> installed them).
>
> FWIW, evince does not require llvm, but probably some dependency does.
>
> > 3. jhbuild build evince  --nodeps
> >    After this build process took a long time and gave me the output
> > final
> > few lines are :
> >      *** Configuring gdk-pixbuf *** [9/45]
> >     ./autogen.sh --prefix /home/ram/jhbuild/install
> > --enable-installed-tests --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc
> > --disable-Werror
> >    autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> >    autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
> >    Can't exec "autopoint": No such file or directory at
> > /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 345.
> >    autoreconf: failed to run autopoint: No such file or directory
> >    autoreconf: autopoint is needed because this package uses Gettext
>
> The last two lines here are the ones you need to pay attention, because
> it is giving you a hint of the problem.
>
> You need `autopoint', and it is not found in your system.
>
> Try installing autopoint. (sudo apt-get install autopoint).
>
> --
> Germán Poo-Caamaño
> http://calcifer.org/



-- 
-sitaram