Re: gnome-libs configure script messed up?

[Michael Zucchi <zucchi zedzone mmc com au>]

Guys,

This is a bit of a FAQ (probably seen it about 10 times in the last 2
weeks).

You definetly need a working and compiled orbit.  And it has to be
up-to-date - as in the latest cvs version.

 Michael

> 
> Well, the same had happened to me!.. since I couldn't compile even ORBit from CVS,
> I gave up! I asked in this list but.. no answer.. anyway, I know everybody is
> working hard and I'm really looking forward for gnome 1.0
> BTW: Does anybody know how to fix this error?
> JC
> 
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> 
> >   I've compiled gtk+, gtk-engines, glib, imlib, and ORBit (not in that
> > order :-) ) but I can't get gnome-libs to compile.  In fact--I can't even get
> > it to configure.  When I run autogen.sh, it ticks along fine, then suddenly
> > prints out the following:
> >
> > creating Makefile
> > sed: file conftest.s2 line 40: Unterminated `s' command
> > ./config.status: line 1: 14639 Broken pipe             sed -f conftest.s1
> >      14640 Done(1)                 | sed -f conftest.s2
> > ./config.status: line 319: 14637 Broken pipe             sed -e "$ac_comsub
> > s%@configure_input@%$configure_input%g
> > s%@srcdir@%$srcdir%g
> > s%@top_srcdir@%$top_srcdir%g
> > s%@INSTALL@%$INSTALL%g
> > " $ac_file_inputs
> >      14638 Done(1)                 | ( eval "$ac_sed_cmds" )>$ac_file
> > creating po/Makefile.in
> > sed: file conftest.s2 line 40: Unterminated `s' command
> > ./config.status: line 1: 14662 Broken pipe             sed -f conftest.s1
> >      14663 Done(1)                 | sed -f conftest.s2
> > creating intl/Makefile
> > sed: file conftest.s2 line 40: Unterminated `s' command
> > ./config.status: line 1: 14685 Broken pipe             sed -f conftest.s1
> >      14686 Done(1)                 | sed -f conftest.s2
> >
> >   It then continues and claims to have completed successfully.  But Makefile
> > is empty, so I get a "no targets" error.  Is this a bug in the configure
> > script itself, or is it something I'm doing?  (CVS grab is from this afternoon)
> >
> >   I've attached the full output of autogen, in case it helps.
> >
> > --
> >   Daniel Burrows
> >
> > "I think that the surest sign that there is intelligent
> >  life out there is that none of it has tried to contact us."
> >
> >   -- _Calvin and Hobbes_, Bill Watterson
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >                     Name: gnome-bomb
> >    gnome-bomb       Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> >                 Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> >    Part 1.2   Type: application/pgp-signature
> 
> 
> 
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