Re: autoheader problems (debian)

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Friday, May 25, 2001, at 08:31  AM, jacob berkman wrote:

> On 25 May 2001 10:08:20 +0200, Fatih Demir wrote:
>> I can't build any bigger GNOME application since I updated my
>>  autoconf to version 2.50-1 from debian.
>>
>> I do get the same error in galeon, gtranslator, evolution etc. :
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------- shell
>> autoheader: error: shell error while sourcing /tmp/ah295/traces.sh
>>  or any other /tmp/ah$$/traces.sh..
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Can anyone advise me how to solve this? Is there anyone with similar
>> problems on Debian unstable?
>
> i spent some time looking at this the other day.  the problem is that
> autoconf 2.50 breaks xml-i18n-tools in a way that is hard to fix.  so,
> do not use autoconf 2.50 for now.

Maciej told me he's working on a fix.

     -- Darin