Re: building gnome 2.0

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

Well... It sounds like th build does not find the m4 macros
installed by gettext. 

I'm not sure how realistic it is to twist the arms of the maintainers to
not use them...

And I did build all of them (no, not ORBit2, it just doesn't build/work)
from CVS HEAD

On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Ravi Pratap M wrote:

> Hi Sander,
> 
> 	Thanks for your mail explaining things. I have been trying to get
> a working GNOME 2 setup and was following Martin's instructions, found in
> the gnome-2-plan module along with your own.
> 
> 	However, I was surprised to find that your list seems to include
> some extra modules which were not mentioned by Martin at all !
> 
> 	Okay I have a few questions. Are all modules you mention from CVS
> HEAD ? I am a little confused here because Martin mentioned that almost
> all modules come out of CVS HEAD (in the gnome-2-summary file) and then in
> README.dependencies, goes on to say for certain modules (like oaf) you
> need specific patches to get them to build ! Martin ?
> 
> 	Did you build all modules from HEAD ?
> 
> 
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Sander Vesik wrote:
> 
> > Pre-requisties:
> 
> 	Okay, I have all of these.
> 
> > 	* glib
> > 	* pango
> > 	* atk
> > 	* gnome-xml
> > 	* orbit [2]
> 
> 	All of these build okay from CVS HEAD. I used ORBit-martin-forked
> 
> > 	* 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)'
> 
> 
> 	Is there something terribly wrong I am doing here ?
> 
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Ravi
> 
> 
> -- 
> "If you're smart, you'll be humble. There always is somebody
> who hasn't read a book and knows twice as much as you do."
> 
>               -- David Duchonvy in Readers' Digest
> 
> 	Ravi Pratap M         <ravi che iitm ac in>
>                       <http://www.iitm.ac.in/~ravi>
> 
> 
> 

	Sander

One day a tortoise will learn to fly
	-- Terry Pratchett, 'Small Gods'