[glade--]Re: glademm problems

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Silviu D Minut schrieb:
> > > glademm-2.0.0.1-SNAP
> >
> > ??? I never named any release SNAP (that might be snapshot - but which
> > date is unclear, so you should retry with the CVS version)
>
>
> I downloaded the tarball from http://home.wtal.de/petig/Gtk/ (marked
> "New"). It has a glademm.spec file and I made an rpm from it. It was named
> SNAP. By the way, there's no docs/KNOWN file in the tarball, and rpmbuild
> fails at the very end. I added that. I also swapped the aclocal and
> autoheader in src/Cxx.cc and it woked (i.e. the resulting glade-- produced
> an autogen.sh that was able to configure and compile project.glade).

This tarball is outdated when it comes to autoconf2.5x. But I would like 
to resolve the problems before releasing a new version.

> > Fixing gettext is on my todo list.
> >
> >
> > > autoheader: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in configure.in
> >
> > I already fixed that one in CVS.
> >
> >
> > > configure.in:6: required file `./config.h.in' not found
> >
> > rubbish ;-) autoconf told me that it would not need it any longer ...
>
>
> Between what I saw happening on my own computer and what they say, I
> believe what I saw. It was needed in the glade-- version I compiled. At
> any rate, I'm very frustaed with all the automake tools - they were
> designed to make configuration and compilation easier across different
> platform, and it turns out that automake/autoconf is more difficult to
> keep straight than anything. And if you want to learn from scracth, from
> the online gnu manuals, good luck!
>
> I'll try the cvs version.

It should perform much better (or worse) because I target 
autoconf2.59/automake1.7+ with it.

> > You are more than welcome to join me in development. Feel free to ask
> > any questions you like!
>
>
> Is there anything specific that you would like me to do?

Make it work on your machine. And then tell me how (and perhaps sending 
a patch).

  Christof