Re: ANNOUNCE: new versions of gnome-python and pygtk

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

I guess that the patch patches the files in the wrong order, so the
makefiles believe that aclocal.m4 needs to be rebuilt.  It is probably
easier to grab the tarball, as I know that this works.

James.

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On Sun, 23 May 1999, James Green wrote:

> On Sun, 23 May 1999, James Henstridge wrote:
> 
> > Did you edit the makefiles or anything else in the tarball?  You should
> > not even need automake/autoconf/whatever to just compile gnome-python.
> 
> No edits were made at all. Just untarred gnome-python-1.0.2.tar.gz, then
> gunzip -c gnome-python-1.0.2-1.0.3.diff.gz | patch -p0 (success), cd'ed
> into it, ./configure, make and the errors came up.
> 
> > I use some extensions to automake so that the Makefile.am's are cleaner
> > for handling python scripts and extensions.  If you want to get a hold of
> > these patches, they are available in the am-changes directory of the
> > gnome-python directory on CVS.
> 
> Are these neccessary? I really don't like the idea of software releases
> depending on developer-releases of other software.
> 
> > On Sun, 23 May 1999, James Green wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 22 May 1999, James Henstridge wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I have just released new versions of gnome-python and pygtk.  The main
> > > > changes in pygtk-0.6.1 are fixes for the thread support introduced in
> > > > 0.6.0.  You should not have problems in the examples now.
> > > 
> > > I'm getting this on my RH6 box (Perl, Glib/GTK, Gnome, etc., all latest
> > > tarballs):
> > > 
> > > [jg@cyberstorm gnome-python-1.0.3]$ make
> > > cd . && aclocal -I macros
> > > aclocal: configure.in: 6: macro `AM_PATH_PYTHON' not found in library
> > > aclocal: configure.in: 7: macro `AM_INIT_PYEXEC_MOD' not found in library
> > > aclocal: configure.in: 10: macro `AM_PATH_GDK_IMLIB' not found in library
> > > make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
> > > 
> > > And if it's any help:
> > > 
> > > [jg@cyberstorm gnome-python-1.0.3]$ rpm -q autoconf
> > > autoconf-2.13-5
> > > [jg@cyberstorm gnome-python-1.0.3]$ rpm -q automake
> > > automake-1.4-4
> > > [jg@cyberstorm gnome-python-1.0.3]$ rpm -q make
> > > make-3.77-6
> > > [jg@cyberstorm gnome-python-1.0.3]$ env | grep PATH
> > > PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/enlightenment/bin:/home/jg/bin:/etc/ppp/scripts
> > > 
> > > I cannot see anything that has failed the ./configure.
> 
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