Re: building gnome 2.0

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Ravi Pratap M <ravi che iitm ac in> writes:

> > 	* oaf
> 
> 	Does not build from HEAD. Here's what I get :
> 
> Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-compile-warnings
> --prefix=/opt/gnome2 --with-runtime-debug --enable-platform-gnome-2 ...
> loading cache ./config.cache
> ./configure: line 535: syntax error near unexpected token
> `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(oaf,'
> ./configure: line 535: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(oaf, $OAF_VERSION)'
> 
> 
> > 	* libxslt
> > 	* gconf
> > 	* libart_lgpl
> > 	* libgnomebase
> 
> 
> 	All of these don't and give me this when I try to build:
> 
> Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-compile-warnings
> --prefix=/opt/gnome2 --with-runtime-debug --enable-platform-gnome-2 ...
> creating cache ./config.cache
> ./configure: line 525: syntax error near unexpected token
> `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'
> ./configure: line 525: `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'

Any time you get this sort of error, it most likely means
that aclocal failed to run from autogen.sh

What you have to be aware of is:

 - If aclocal prints out an error message, no matter how
   harmless looking, it did nothing, and you need to fix
   the error message before configuring.

If I had to guess, you have ORBit.m4 installed in two places
(one from old, one from new) and aclocal is erroring out
for that reason.
 
Basically, as far as GTK+, things are designed to parallel install
properly and easily, beyond that, it has not yet been fully fixed, so
things get harder.

Regards,
                                        Owen