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

[Tim Cuthbertson <tim gfxmonk net>]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Giovanni Campagna
<scampa giovanni gmail com> wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 19/02/2011 alle 15.45 +1100, Tim Cuthbertson ha scritto:
>> 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...
>
> This is fixed in Git now, thanks for the report.
> Next time, if possible, file a bug in bugzilla (product gnome-shell,
> component extensions).
>
> Giovanni

Thanks, and will do :)

> PS: how did you get that git submodule setup?

It's a submodule? I have no idea. I don't remember setting any git
submodules up, I think it must have been done by jhbuild at some
point.

Cheers,
 - Tim.