Re: ?procedure for compiling from git

[Hal Ashburner <hal ashburner info>]

I've always used
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local




On 9 February 2015 at 16:51, John Denker <jsd av8n com> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> Dumb question:  I'm trying to figure out how to compile
> gnumeric and goffice, starting from a freshly cloned git
> repo.
>
> I have gotten as far as figuring out the steps listed below.
>
> However, I am evidently missing a step, because a whole
> bunch of make-related files are not getting created.  Could
> somebody please tell me the correct incantation for configuring
> and compiling stuff, in a freshly-cloned git repo, on a generic
> Ubuntu platform?
>
> The example below mentions goffice, but closely analogous
> issues pertain to gnumeric (just different missing files).
>
> I have ways of kludging around the problems, but there
> must be a more systematic, reliable, proper procedure.
>
> ###################################################
> # Here are the almost-correct steps, AFAICT:
>
> :; git clone https://github.com/GNOME/goffice
>
> :; sudo apt-get install libtool automake gtk-doc-tools
>
> :; if ! grep -q AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR configure.ac ; then
>  awk '{print}   /^AC/{if(!didsome){
>    print "AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])";
>    didsome++;
> }}'  ./configure.ac > /tmp/$$
>
> mv /tmp/$$ ./configure.ac
> fi
>
> :; libtoolize --force
> ### It says:
> ### libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
>
> :; aclocal
> :; autoheader
> :; automake --force-missing --add-missing   # many warnings: non-gnu extensions
> :; autoconf
> :; ./configure --prefix=/usr
> :; make
> :; make install
>
> Hat tip:
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1258673
>
> ######################################################
>
> ## Uncreated files, using the steps known to me:
>   gtk-doc.make
>   goffice/Makefile.in
>   plugins/Makefile.in
>   plugins/plot_barcol/Makefile.in
>   plugins/plot_pie/Makefile.in
>   plugins/plot_radar/Makefile.in
>   plugins/plot_xy/Makefile.in
>   plugins/plot_surface/Makefile.in
>   plugins/plot_distrib/Makefile.in
>   plugins/reg_linear/Makefile.in
>   plugins/reg_logfit/Makefile.in
>   plugins/smoothing/Makefile.in
>   plugins/lasem/Makefile.in
>   mmlitex/Makefile.in
>   po/Makefile.in.in
>   tests/Makefile.in
>   tools/Makefile.in
>   docs/reference/Makefile.in
>
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