Re: compiling gnome2 projects in a garnome session

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp martianrock com>]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 14:14, mhbouhmadi free fr wrote:
> Hi,
> **MY QUESTIONS ARE**:
>  * does someone have a shell script, that allows (once runned) to compile a
> project (using classical automake, autoconf...etc) using the garnome libraries /
> tools.
>  * Why autoconf is not in garnome/bin/ ?
> 
> **Context**:
> I've just spent the weekend getting and compiling garnome 0.27.1.
> It works fine. Thanks...
> I now have a working gnome2 session for my test user.
> 
> I tried to create a new gnome2 project using glade (c++), but when I compile it,
> i get the following error:
> FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.53 or higher is required for this script
> 
> The explanation is simple: the autoconf that comes with garnome (version 2.57)
> is not in the path!
> 
> An other solution would be to hake the garnome build scripts to add my project.
> I am not sure this is a good idea...
> 
> The script would have been easy if all the tools where in garnome/bin/ ?!

Go into the bootstrap directory and do a make install (I'm not sure if
make parinoid_install works but try that first).  This should install
all the GNU autotools into garnome/bin/.  Some systems already have the
required tools so not everyone has to bootstrap.

> Thanks.

Hope that helps.

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J5