Re: gnome-libs cvs

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Bob Phan wrote:
> Hi.  I've managed to obtain the cvs version of gnome-libs, because I
> wanted to play around with it.  Anyways, when I run autogen, everything
> seems to work, auto header, autoconf, automake, etc... but when it
> starts to run configure, it gives me a recursive error.  Here's the
> error output (autogen.sh 2> blah.log).
> 
> aclocal: configure.in: 333: macro `AM_PATH_OAF' not found in library
> aclocal: configure.in: 334: macro `AM_PATH_GCONF' not found in library

If you don't know what causes this there's a 99% chance that you do NOT
want gnome-libs from CVS. Let me go ahead and warn you that the CVS
version will break your entire GNOME setup right now (I'm not saying maybe
it will, I'm saying it definitely 100% chance will - and 90% chance that
CVS gnome-libs doesn't even compile properly). gnome-core etc. from CVS
will NOT compile with CVS gnome-libs.

Which is to say, if you want to ask about CVS gnome-libs you should
probably be asking on gnome-devel-list instead of gnome-list and planning
to hack on gnome-libs. 

Now that you know that ;-) the problem is that you need to install the
'oaf' and 'gconf' modules, also from CVS, so that oaf.m4 and gconf.m4 will
exist in your prefix/share/aclocal directory, or in some directory
included by your ACLOCAL_FLAGS.

Havoc