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

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

I hope :
http://www.gnome.org/~chema/gnome-love/compiling_faq.txt.html
question 3.1 solves your problem, if not let me know so that i can
add more detail to the Answer.

Chema

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.
>
> 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
>
>
> I've tried setting ACLOCAL_FLAGS to
> 1)  nothing
> 2)  -I /opt/gnome-14j3/share/aclocal
> 3) -I /opt/gnome-14j3/share/aclocal -I /extras/share/aclocal
>
> If I set it to nothing I get the above if I set to 2 or 3 I get a bunch
> of duplicate entries and
> a failure in aclocal again.
>
> If someone could point me at a tutorial whatever or just give some
> guideance I would
> much appreciate it...
>
> Thanks
> Jon
>
>
>
>
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