Re: [gnome-love] error in building gypsy

[Craig Keogh <cskeogh adam com au>]

On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 17:57 +0200, Wepmaschda wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am trying to build gnome via jhbuild on ubuntu 11.10.
>
> I have the following error during configuring gypsy:
> -------------------
> *** Configuring gypsy *** [36/215]
> ./autogen.sh --prefix /opt/gnome --libdir '/opt/gnome/lib64'
> --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: running: libtoolize --install --copy
> libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and
> libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree.
> libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
> autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
> gtk-doc.make:7: GTK_DOC_USE_LIBTOOL does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> docs/reference/Makefile.am:87:   `gtk-doc.make' included from here
> gtk-doc.make:54: ENABLE_GTK_DOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> docs/reference/Makefile.am:87:   `gtk-doc.make' included from here
> gtk-doc.make:55: GTK_DOC_BUILD_HTML does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> docs/reference/Makefile.am:87:   `gtk-doc.make' included from here
> gtk-doc.make:60: GTK_DOC_BUILD_PDF does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> docs/reference/Makefile.am:87:   `gtk-doc.make' included from here
> gtk-doc.make:261: ENABLE_GTK_DOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> docs/reference/Makefile.am:87:   `gtk-doc.make' included from here
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> *** Error during phase configure of gypsy: ########## Error running
> ./autogen.sh --prefix /opt/gnome --libdir '/opt/gnome/lib64'
> --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc  *** [36/215]
> ----------------------
>
> Has anybody already had this error? Is there something wrong with gtk-doc?

gypsy isn't honoring ACLOCAL_FLAGS. I believe the best way to solve is
to add the following line to Makefile.am:
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}

See bug 641445 [1], or more importantly bug 641445's children (depends
on).

-- 
Craig Keogh <cskeogh adam com au>

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641445