gnome-shell-extensions required directories (m4 and configure)

[Tim Cuthbertson <tim gfxmonk net>]

I was just doing a jhbuild build, and it failed when it got to gnome-shell:


configuring gnome-shell *** [31/34]
./autogen.sh --prefix /home/tim/gnome-shell/install --libdir
'/home/tim/gnome-shell/install/lib64'  --disable-static
--disable-gtk-doc
/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
  testing autoconf2.50... not found.
  testing autoconf... found 2.67
checking for automake >= 1.9...
  testing automake-1.11... found 1.11.1
checking for libtool >= 1.5...
  testing libtoolize... found 2.2.6b
checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
  testing glib-gettextize... found 2.29.2
checking for intltool >= 0.30...
  testing intltoolize... found 0.41.1
checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0...
  testing pkg-config... found 0.25
checking for gnome-common >= 2.3.0...
  testing gnome-doc-common... found 2.28.0
Checking for required M4 macros...
Checking for forbidden M4 macros...
Processing ./configure.ac
Running libtoolize...
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `config'.
libtoolize: copying file `config/ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
libtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
Running glib-gettextize... Ignore non-fatal messages.
Copying file mkinstalldirs
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in

Please add the files
  codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
  progtest.m4
from the /aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.

Running intltoolize...
Running gnome-doc-common...
Running aclocal-1.11...
configure.ac:2: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-shell
Running autoconf...
configure.ac:2: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-shell
Running autoheader...
configure.ac:2: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-shell
Running automake-1.11...
configure.ac:2: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-shell
Processing ./extensions/gnome-shell-extensions/configure.ac
Running intltoolize...
cp: cannot create regular file `m4/intltool.m4': No such file or directory
intltoolize: cannot copy '/usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4' to 'm4/intltool.m4'
*** Error during phase configure of gnome-shell: ########## Error
running ./autogen.sh --prefix /home/tim/gnome-shell/install --libdir
'/home/tim/gnome-shell/install/lib64'  --disable-static
--disable-gtk-doc  *** [31/34]

  [1] Rerun phase configure
  [2] Ignore error and continue to build
  [3] Give up on module
  [4] Start shell
  [5] Reload configuration
  [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over"
  [7] Go to phase "clean"
  [8] Go to phase "distclean"
choice:



After a bit of trial and error, I made the empty directories "m4" and
"config" inside
~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/extensions/gnome-shell-extensions,
and it seems to be working now. So it looks like there needs to be
some sort of file created and checked into git in these directories
(even a .gitignore) so that git will track them.

Or alternatively, make the autoconfigure-whatsit tool not depend on
these directories already existing, but I doubt that's easy...

Cheers,
 - Tim.