building goffice issues

[Miss Magpie <the magpies nest gmail com>]

Hi everyone,

I was originally trying to build gnumeric for python, but that isn't
working at the moment(using this page:
http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/doc/sect-extending-python-install.shtml)
as jean told me on irc.

However, I wanted a look around anyway(since I'd like to volunteer for
testing), so I installed libgsf and then found I need gtk-doc, which I
also installed, however, it could not find a file called gtk-doc.m4
which resides in the /usr/share/aclocal directory.  I found this quick
fix instruction and followed it:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-February/032035.html
and then it moved on, but got stuck again.

Since this time it requires a few things I'm really not sure of, I
thought I'd better ask, because this looked like I'm doing the wrong
thing or perhaps haven't installed something I should have first.

Here is the output from the ./autogen command for goffice:

 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --with-gconf-schema-file-dir=/etc/gconf/schemas
checking for autoconf >= 2.54...
  testing autoconf2.50... not found.
  testing autoconf... found 2.65
checking for automake >= 1.9.0...
  testing automake-1.11... found 1.11.1
checking for libtool >= 1.4.3...
  testing libtoolize... found 2.2.6b
checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
  testing glib-gettextize... found 2.24.1
checking for intltool >= 0.27.2...
  testing intltoolize... found 0.41.0
checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0...
  testing pkg-config... found 0.22
checking for gtk-doc >= 1.0...
  testing gtkdocize... found 1.6
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.in
Running libtoolize...
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: You should add the contents of the following files to `aclocal.m4':
libtoolize:   `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4'
libtoolize:   `/usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize:   `/usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize:   `/usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize:   `/usr/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4'
libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.in and
libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree.
libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
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 gtkdocize...
Running gnome-doc-common...
Running aclocal-1.11...
Running autoconf...
Running autoheader...
Running automake-1.11...
configure.in:65: installing `./config.guess'
configure.in:65: installing `./config.sub'
configure.in:21: installing `./install-sh'
configure.in:21: installing `./missing'
goffice/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/usr
--with-gconf-schema-file-dir=/etc/gconf/schemas ...
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-gconf-schema-file-dir
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to disable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for intltool >= 0.35.0... 0.41.0 found
checking for intltool-update... /usr/bin/intltool-update
checking for intltool-merge... /usr/bin/intltool-merge
checking for intltool-extract... /usr/bin/intltool-extract
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.10.1
checking for XML::Parser... ok
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for bison... bison -y
checking for flex... flex
checking lex output file root... lex.yy
checking lex library... -lfl
checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for ar... ar
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for surfaces... configure: error: Package requirements (
        cairo-ps                >= 1.10.0
        cairo-pdf               >= 1.10.0
        cairo-svg               >= 1.10.0
) were not met:

Requested 'cairo-ps >= 1.10.0' but version of cairo-ps is 1.8.10
Requested 'cairo-pdf >= 1.10.0' but version of cairo-pdf is 1.8.10
Requested 'cairo-svg >= 1.10.0' but version of cairo-svg is 1.8.10

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables surfaces_CFLAGS
and surfaces_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

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thanks for any advice,

parlourpachyderm