[glade--]Re: glademm problems

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Silviu D Minut schrieb:
> Hi, Christof
>
> I'm having some troubles compiling a gtkmm program generated by glademm.
> I have
>
> libglademm2-2.0.1-0.fdr.6.1
> libglademm2-devel-2.0.1-0.fdr.6.1
>
> 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 run
> glade-- project1.glade
>
> and then ./autogen.sh. Nothing works if I enable gettext support
> in glade-2 when I produce project1.glade. I really don't care for that, so
> I disable it.

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 ...

> then finally
>
> config.status: creating config.h
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: config.h.in
>
>
> I searched on google after
> "autoheader: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in configure.in"
> and someone mentioned that this is because aclocal is not run before
> autoheader.
>
> So I manually swapped aclocal before autoheader and indeed all errors were
> gone and the program compiled.
>
> It appears then that glade-- generates the wrong autogen.sh file, so I'm
> wondering if

Did you try the CVS version (the released version lacks behind with 
respect to autoconf files).

> 1) I'm doing someghing wrong.
> 2) If not, can we correct the glade-- code? It's trivial to do - just swap
> the appropriate lines (580 and 581) in Cxx.cc - but I assume you had a
> reason why you have autoheader before aclocal.

Did I have a reason? I don't know any longer. I remember copying the 
behavior from some gnome examples ...

> I always have troubles with glade-- whenever I install new versions. I'm
> surprised others don't complain about it. I don't know if you need any
> help with glade-- development, but I'd be happy to get involved in the
> glademm project. That way I would understand it better, so I could fix my
> problems by myself. But I need a little help to get started.

You are more than welcome to join me in development. Feel free to ask 
any questions you like!

   Christof