Problems building gnome-guile

[Graham Todd <gtodd yorku ca>]

Hi everyone,

I've started to check out the snapshot rpm's and src.rpm's (I should use CVS I
guess but...) and apart from some problems with rpm macro definitions in the
.spec files (see my earlier post) things have gone fairly smoothly. I'm having a
problem building gnome-guile though:

%define nam      gnome-guile
%define rel      1998041014

Doing:

rpm -ba gnome.guile.spec

or tar xvfz 'ing the tarball in the rpm and building from the source ends up
with this error:

------- insert ----------
(configure ends ...)

creating Makefile
creating config.h

(then the make stage ...)

Now type `make' to compile the Gnome Guile Libraries
+ [  !=  ]
+ make
Makefile:317: macros/macros.dep: No such file or directory
cd macros && make macros.dep
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/BUILD/gnome-guile-0.13/macros'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/BUILD/gnome-guile-0.13/macros'
cd . && autoheader
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/BUILD/gnome-guile-0.13'
Making all in macros
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/BUILD/gnome-guile-0.13/macros'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/BUILD/gnome-guile-0.13/macros'
Making all in guile-gtk
make[2]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/BUILD/gnome-guile-0.13/guile-gtk'
Computing dependencies for main.c...
main.c:85: main.x: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [.deps/main.P] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/BUILD/gnome-guile-0.13/guile-gtk'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/BUILD/gnome-guile-0.13'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
Bad exit status
-------end insert-------

At this stage and for this size of project the Makefile.in, .configure.in files,
etc, etc are *way* too complex for a mere user like me to figure out what is
going on (reminds me of imake :-) I don't even know what main.x is let alone why
it's not there!

I'm not really sure what I need to build gnome :-) (is there a list somewhere?)
but many of the other src.rpm's built and installed without problems (except the
above mentioned spec file macros). Here's some of the stuff I have installed on
a modified yygdrasil/RedHat Linux box: 

guile-1.2-2
guile-devel-1.2-2
imlib-1.2-1998041014
imlib-devel-1.2-1998041014
libtool-1.2-2
binutils-2.7.0.2
gcc-2.7.2.3
GNU Make version 3.74, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath
autoconf version 2.12
automake (GNU automake) 1.2
libc.so.5.4.38
kernel 2.0.33
XFree.3.3.1
gtk+-0.99.10
gtk+-devel-0.99.10-2
gnome-libs-0.13-1998041014
gnome-libs-devel-0.13-1998041014

Anyway if there's an easy/obvious fix perhaps someone could post it otherwise
I'll try again in a week or so ...

-- 
Graham Todd        
York University, Toronto  
http://www.yorku.ca/academics/gtodd