Re: gnumeric compilation failure

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le dimanche 15 novembre 2009 à 17:18 +0800, bill lam a écrit :
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Jean Bréfort wrote:
> > Le dimanche 15 novembre 2009 à 16:32 +0800, bill lam a écrit :
> > > Just tried to compile gnumeric from git, it failed with message.
> > >
> > > Making all in source
> > > make[7]: Entering directory `/home/bill/src/gnumeric/src/tools/solver/glpk/source'
> > > make[8]: Entering directory `/home/bill/src/gnumeric/src/tools/solver/glpk/source'
> > > make[8]: *** No rule to make target `glpavl.c', needed by `glpavl.lo'.  Stop.
> > >
> > > If that matters, I use ./configure from gnumeric 1.9.15 tarball, because
> > > autogen.sh depends on gnome that I don't want to install.
> >
> > It does matter, please run at least automake before configure
> > (autogen.sh is ways better, of course since you might have libtool (or
> > other) version conflict).
>
> I just tried automake but there was libtool version conflict. I guess
> mine is much older in debian lenny.  Any possibility to include
> configure in git for those who don't want to install gnome (like me).

Not a good idea, imho, since all developpers don't have the same
autotools/libtool versions. You don't need to install gnome, just
gnome-common which is a collection of macros and only requests autoconf,
automake, libtool, pkg-config, gettext, and intltool.