Re: gnome-core bombs mightily

[Michael Harnois <mharnois willinet net>]

Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.net> writes:

> > Also, as I said in response to another message, I've been doing 
> > this for some months and it just failed yesterday.
> 
> I've been doing this for over a year, and I have accidentally and
> unknowingly nuked my .m4 files and cried about it on the list more times
> than I care to recall.  It never hurts to check.  Plus, if you are beyond
> checking dumb things just to placate the people trying to help you,
> then maybe you should not be asking for help, non?

No, I don't mind checking dumb things at all. Actually, I'm afraid you 
were getting the fallout from the post that preceded yours. My
apologies. 

> 	% strace -f autoconf 2>&1 | grep 'm4'

Ah. I think this is it! Doing this led me to see I had no
aclocal.m4. And why?

aclocal: configure.in: 170: macro `AM_PATH_ESD' not found in library

Because, about two days ago, a commit in gnome-core made the whole
shebang depend on having esd installed! And, if it's not, aclocal
fails, which means autoconf fails.

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