Re: [gnome-love] Can anyone guide me on compiling from CVS

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On 17 Aug 2001 23:17:38 -0600, Jon Bowman @ Home wrote:
> Basically I'm looking at becoming more involved with Gnome so having
> compiled everything from tar balls so far I decided to pull from CVS.

Ok, i've seen this before. If you want to get involved with GNOME
development you don't need to compile everything from CVS. Believe me,
you are going to have enough compile related headaches to look for more.
Compile all you need for real work, well that is what i recommend.

> So I have a cvs copy of gnome-pilot for example how do I compile this
> thing, or rather more to the point how do I get a configure script to be
> built.
> I'm not that used to aclocal, automake, autogen etc and just can't seem
> to make
> headway. Most of the docs I've seen say to run ./autogen.sh however I
> get
> this when I do


> poopsalot > ./autogen.sh
> **Warning**: I am going to run `configure' with no arguments.
> If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the
> `./autogen.sh' command line.
> processing .
> deletefiles is  macros/gnome-gettext.m4
> Creating ./aclocal.m4 ...
> Running gettextize...  Ignore non-fatal messages.
> You should update your own `aclocal.m4' by adding the necessary
> macro packages gettext.m4, lcmessage.m4 and progtest.m4 from
> the directory `/aclocal'
> Making ./aclocal.m4 writable ...
> Running libtoolize...
> You should add the contents of `/extras/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to
> `aclocal.m4'.
> Running aclocal  -I macros ...
> aclocal: configure.in: 86: macro `AM_PATH_GLIB' not found in library
> aclocal: configure.in: 102: macro `AM_PATH_LIBGLADE' not found in
> library
> **Error**: aclocal failed. This may mean that you have not
> installed all of the packages you need, or you may need to
> set ACLOCAL_FLAGS to include "-I $prefix/share/aclocal"
> for the prefix where you installed the packages whose
> macros were not found

Ok. This specific problem is that you need to have GLIB and LIBGLADE
install. I recomend that you get -devel rpms (or .debs) for glib and
libglade-gnome.

What is happening here is that glib and libglade install .m4 macros in
$PREFIX/share/aclocal so go look for this .m4 macros in the 

> 2)  -I /opt/gnome-14j3/share/aclocal

dir.

> If someone could point me at a tutorial whatever or just give some
> guideance I would
> much appreciate it...

We don't have any. I've wanted to write one for some time but we need
something like a FAQ. I'll start writing a FAQ for compiling GNOME stuff
from tarballs/cvs good idea.

regards,
Chema

> Thanks
> Jon
>
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