A recent problem. . .

[Michael Bruce <bruce infinet com>]

I'd like to preface this by saying that I think it would be a good
idea to have a gnome-compiling list, or similar.  I really hate to ask
these types of questions, and only do so as a last resort;
unfortunately, there isn't anyplace else to ask.

(although, this is almost development related.  I'm trying to get all
the GNOME stuff in a usable state, because I want to start doing some
development.)

My problem now is, I think with automake/aclocal.  Everything was
working fine, with a fairly recent CVS gnome-libs, glib, gtk+, etc.
Recently, I decided to upgrade before I tried my hand at my first
GNOME program.  I started with Gtk.  That went fine.  After that,
things went not so fine.  I started out getting a new gnome-core and
trying to compile that.  No go (I don't remember the exact error), so
I decided, after reading various messages on this list, that I should
upgrade gnome-libs (I upgraded glib when I upgraded gtk).  That is
where I'm currently stuck.  I'm dead in the water with autogen.sh;
this is also true for imlib, the only other thing I've tried.  These
are the errors that I get: (more text after errors)

<ERRORS>
[bruce@ogg081-058 gnome-libs]$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnome --host=i686-pc-linux-pc
processing .
`aclocal' will also look in `macros'
You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.
aclocal: macros/gimp.m4: 8: duplicated macro `AM_PATH_GIMP'
aclocal: macros/glib.m4: 8: duplicated macro `AM_PATH_GLIB'
gtk-xmhtml/Makefile.am:128: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
libgnome/Makefile.am:234: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
libgnome/Makefile.am:242: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
libgnome/Makefile.am:247: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
libgnomeui/Makefile.am:501: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
libgnomeui/Makefile.am:507: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
libgnomeui/Makefile.am:513: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
libgnomeui/Makefile.am:519: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
libgnomeui/Makefile.am:525: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
libgnorba/Makefile.am:619: variable `ORBIT_LIBS' not defined
libgnorba/Makefile.am:619: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
libgnorba/Makefile.am:626: variable `ORBIT_LIBS' not defined
libgnorba/Makefile.am:626: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
zvt/Makefile.am:698: variable `GDK_IMLIB_LIBS' not defined
zvt/Makefile.am:698: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
test-suite/Makefile.am:710: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
test-suite/Makefile.am:710: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
gnome-hello/Makefile.am:747: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
gnome-hello/Makefile.am:747: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
gnome-hello/Makefile.am:747: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
gnome-hello/Makefile.am:747: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
gnome-hello/Makefile.am:747: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
gnome-hello/Makefile.am:747: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
gnome-hello/Makefile.am:747: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
gnome-hello/Makefile.am:747: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
gnome-hello/Makefile.am:747: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
gnome-hello/Makefile.am:747: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
test-gnome/Makefile.am:806: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
support/Makefile.am:872: BUILD_GNOME_SUPPORT does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
support/Makefile.am:889: @LTLIBOBJS@ seen but never set in `configure.in'
autoconf: Undefined macros:
configure.in:258:  AC_MSG_WARN([
configure.in:37:  AC_MSG_WARN(GLIB not installed, or glib-config not in path)])
processing ./libgtktty
You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.
aclocal: configure.in: 41: macro `AM_PATH_GTK' not found in library
running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-compile-warnings --prefix=/opt/gnome --host=i686-pc-linux-pc
loading cache ./config.cache
./configure: syntax error near unexpected token `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'
./configure: ./configure: line 531: `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'

</ERRORS>

I've pretty much exhausted what little I've learned of automake/configure
at this time.  Most of my other compilation problems have turned out
to be simple and obvious in retrospect; I'm hoping that this one will
be, as well.

Just to help narrow down the search, other post-0.30 CVS GNOMEs
compiled just fine; I very much doubt that an old automake or similar
is the problem.

Also, the only reference to AM_PATH_GTK in gtk.m4 comes after a dnl.
What that means, I don't know (I'm slowly working my way through the
automake info file, but I haven't gotten much past the first page) .

Any help at all is appreciated.

-- 
Michael Bruce (mabruce@students.wisc.edu)