Compiling from CVS

[Aron Griffis <agriffis bigfoot com>]

Hello folks,

I know this is a FAQ, but I looked through the mailing list archive
and couldn't find it answered, nor on developer.gnome.org.

What are the steps to compiling source checked out from CVS.  I'm
trying to work on mc from CVS, because the most recent release of mc
isn't close to compiling on Tru64 UNIX.

Obviously ./autogen.sh is involved, but when I run it I get the
following output.  Could somebody give me a pointer to get started?

Btw, to resolve the "Invalid configuration `alphaev6-dec-osf5.0'"
messages, I would usually "cp /usr/local/share/libtool/* ." to get
config.guess and config.sub from libtool-1.3.4.

[0 cam3:~/dl/gnome/mc/mc-20000228] ./autogen.sh 
macros directory not found, skipping generation of aclocal.m4
configure.in:929: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:1113: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:929: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:1113: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
autoconf: Undefined macros:
configure.in:1156:    AC_LIB_XPM
configure.in:1160:      AC_X_SHAPE_EXTENSION
configure.in:154:AC_SHORT_D_NAME_LEN
configure.in:207:AC_TRY_WARNINGS([#include <crypt.h>], [char *p = crypt("xxx", "yyy");],[
configure.in:211:AC_TRY_WARNINGS([#include <unistd.h>], [char *p = crypt("xxx", "yyy");],[
configure.in:279:AC_GET_FS_INFO
configure.in:53:AC_PROG_GNU_MAKE
configure.in:203: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:204: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:203: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:204: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... Invalid configuration `alphaev6-dec-osf5.0': machine `alphaev6-dec' not recognized

checking target system type... Invalid configuration `alphaev6-dec-osf5.0': machine `alphaev6-dec' not recognized

checking build system type... Invalid configuration `alphaev6-dec-osf5.0': machine `alphaev6-dec' not recognized

checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... cc
checking whether the C compiler (cc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (cc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... no
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for mawk... no
checking for gawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
./configure: AC_PROG_GNU_MAKE: not found
checking for AIX... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
./configure: MC_HPUX_PROG_CC_STDC: not found
checking whether sys/types.h defines makedev... yes
checking for working const... yes
checking for mv... /usr/local/bin/mv
checking for cp... /usr/local/bin/cp
checking for rm... /usr/local/bin/rm
checking for chmod... /usr/local/bin/chmod
checking for ar... /usr/bin/ar
checking for uname... OSF1
checking for netscape... netscape
./configure: AM_GNU_GETTEXT: not found
./configure: syntax error at line 1701: `AM_PATH_GLIB' unexpected

Thanks,
Aron

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Aron Griffis            Compaq Computer Corporation, ZKO3-3/T30
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