Re: Can't compile gtk+

[Frater Reklaw <fraterreklaw yahoo com>]

Put /usr/local/lib/gnome/bin in your path.


---Johan Groth <jgroth@xpress.se> wrote:
>
> On 01-Aug-98 Paul Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > You need to compile glib first, it creates the aclocal it is looking
> > for. Assuming you did it, the compile is not finding your aclcoal,so
> > you probably have an existing /usr/share/aclocal directory, and
> > you need to put a symlink from the /usr/local/share/aclocal/*.m4
> > files
> > to that directory.
> > 
> 
> Hi, 
> I tried your suggestions but it did not work. Perhaps I was too
brief in
> my first explanation. I have gnome 0.20 installed on my system
> (installed from rpm-packages) and I want to build the latest
> glib/gtk/gnome from the cvs source tree. So I tried ./autogen.sh
> --prefix=/usr/local/lib/gnome && make && make install in the glib
> directory. It went well. Then I tried the same thing in gtk+ and it
> fails in the configure.in-script.
> 
> [jgroth@tiger ~/gnome/gtk+]$ ./autogen.sh
--prefix=/usr/local/lib/gnome
> aclocal: configure.in: 141: macro `AM_PATH_GLIB' not found in library
> configure.in:125: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow
> cross compiling
> configure.in:126: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow
> cross compiling
> configure.in:341: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow
> cross compiling
> configure.in:359: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow
> cross compiling
> configure.in:373: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow
> cross compiling
> loading cache ./config.cache
> ./configure: syntax error near unexpected token
> `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE,'
> ./configure: ./configure: line 581: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE,
> $VERSION, no-define)'
> 
> I think the first row is the true error but I have not a clue how to
> fix it. 
> 
> The versions of aclocal, autoconf, libtool and automake I use are:
> [jgroth@tiger ~/gnome/gtk+]$ aclocal --version
> aclocal (GNU automake) 1.3
> 
> [jgroth@tiger ~/gnome/gtk+]$ autoconf --version
> Autoconf version 2.12
> 
> [jgroth@tiger ~/gnome/gtk+]$ libtool --version
> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.0h
> 
> [jgroth@tiger ~/gnome/gtk+]$ automake --version
> automake (GNU automake) 1.3
> 
> 
> autogen.sh does not complain about them so it shouldn't be the tools. 
> Is it even possible to have a production and a bleeding-edge version
of
> gnome installed?
> 
> ///Johan
> 
> PS
> Does anyone have a suggestion of a good window manager to use with
> gnome (please, not fvwm. I think it is too hard to customize). I
need a
> pager and nice background, sound is nice but not essential. Today I
use
> AfterStep 1.4.5 but it does not work well with Gnome.
> 

I use WindowMaker, together with wmakerconf. Very easy
to customize. check freshmeat for the links.
==
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Reklaw
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http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/3401/



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