Re: I am a Beginner, help please

["Vincent Povirk" <madewokherd+d41d gmail com>]

You may need to set another environment variable so it'll find the m4
macros. Unfortunately, I'm on a windows machine and cannot check (and
power is out at home). I guess check the autoconf man page. :/

If you've installed gnome-common with your distro, I have no idea what
the problem is.

On Nov 6, 2007 1:25 PM, Madhusudan C.S <madhusudancs gmail com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi Vincent,
>
> > If your distro can install gnome-common for you, that may work better.
> > Otherwise, you will have to set some environment variables so the
> > configure script can find the gnome-common you installed to home:
> >
> > export
> PATH=/home/madhu/gnome-builds/sbin:/home/madhu/gnome-builds/bin:$PATH
> > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/madhu/gnome-builds/lib
> > export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/madhu/gnome-builds/lib/pkgconfig
>
> Thanks a lot for the reply. I am extremely sorry for not having replied so
> many days. I was busy with exams. Even after doing this I am not able to get
> the things done. These are the steps I followed
> madhu madhusudancs:~/gnome-common$ ./autogen
> --prefix=/home/madhu/gnome-builds
> madhu madhusudancs:~/gnome-common$ make install
>
> After this I got it into the directory ~/gnome-games and when I typed
> ./autogen --prefix=/home/madhu/gnome-builds I got the following output
>
> madhu madhusudancs:~/gnome-games$ ./autogen.sh
> --prefix=/home/madhu/gnome-builds/
> /usr/local/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
> checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
>   testing autoconf2.50... not found.
>   testing autoconf... found 2.61
> checking for automake >= 1.9...
>   testing automake-1.10... found 1.10
> checking for libtool >= 1.4.3...
>   testing libtoolize... found 1.5.24
> checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
>   testing glib-gettextize... found 2.14.1
> checking for intltool >= 0.25...
>   testing intltoolize... found 0.36.2
> checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0...
>    testing pkg-config... found 0.22
> checking for gnome-doc-utils >= 0.10.0...
>   testing gnome-doc-prepare... found 0.12.0
> Checking for required M4 macros...
>   gnome-common.m4 not found
>   gnome-compiler-flags.m4 not found
> ***Error***: some autoconf macros required to build Gnome Games
>   were not found in your aclocal path, or some forbidden
>   macros were found.  Perhaps you need to adjust your
>   ACLOCAL_FLAGS?
>
>  madhu madhusudancs:~/gnome-games$
>
>
> Please Help me.
>
>
> - Thanks and Regards
>    Madhusudan.C.S
>
> PS: In a private mail to Vincent I have told that the gnome-builds directory
> was empty. Sorry it was my mistake. What I have said above is what is
> actually happening on my system.
>



-- 
Vincent Povirk