Re: [evince] Need help to start contribution

[Germán Poo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org>]

On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 16:39 +0530, Sitaram Shelke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> So I was trying to build evince-3.18.2. I installed Jhbuild,apt-file
> and
> poppler libraries and then I followed the steps which are as follows:
> 1.  jhbuild build evince
> It gave me the following output:
>     Required packages:
>     System installed packages which are too old:
>       (none)
>     No matching system package installed:
>     libtiff
>            jhbuild build: Required system dependencies not installed.
> Install using the command 'jhbuild sysdeps --install' or to
> ignore             system  dependencies use command-line option -
> -nodeps

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/