Re: [Evolution] cannot build evolution checked out from CVS

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

why are you using autoconf 2.50? I suspect this to be the cause of your
problems...either that or gcc 3.x suckage.

Jeff

On Wed, 2001-08-22 at 17:17, Kenny Drobnack wrote:
> Hi. I can't seem to get the evolution checked out from cvs to build.  This is on a Slackware 8.0 box with 
> the additional libraries I needed to compile the evolution beta 2.  I also have gcc-3.0.1, and 
> autoconf-2.50. Not sure if I anything else that would make things go wrong.  So here's what happens. I run 
> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnome, get a bunch of debugging stuff, a few warnings (available on request) 
> followed by the following  nastiness:
>
>
> Running xml-i18n-toolize... Ignore non-fatal messages.
> patching file po/Makefile.in.in
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 18 (offset 4 lines).
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 40.
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 59.
> Hunk #4 FAILED at 95.
> Hunk #5 FAILED at 221.
> 4 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file po/Makefile.in.in.rej
> Running libtoolize...
> You should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
> Running aclocal  -I macros ...
> Running autoheader...
> autoheader: error: shell error while sourcing /tmp/ah11668/traces.sh
> **Error**: autoheader failed.