Re: Getting gmenu to work - compiling newer gnome core & libs

[Matthew Wilkins <7mw2 qlink queensu ca>]

> ctree. At that point I noticed from the web page, that it required the
> development version of gnome, so I got gnome-core-SNAP-980622.tar.gz and
> gnome-libs-SNAP-980622.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.jimpick.com/pub/gnome/snap/,
> but the gnome-libs snapshot doesn't contain the configure script, and if I
> try to make it from configure.in with the command 'autoconf', running it
> it complains:
> 
> ./configure: syntax error near unexpected token
> `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'
> ./configure: ./configure: line 523: `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'
> 
> How might I get it to configure?
> 
> Thanks.

1. get gnome-common-SNAP-whatever and untar it next to gnome-libs.
2. symlink gnome-libs/macros to ../gnome-common/macros
3. do the smae for gnome-libs/intl and gnome-libs/support.
4. cd to gnome-libs and run ./autogen.sh with whatever options you would
pass to configure.

At this point you should be ready to 'make'.  this is the procedure for
any of the GNOME modules (if you get them from ftp.jimpick.com.)
make sure you have up-to-date versions of libtool, automake, etc.

MW