Re: failed to compile goffice from git on debian 9

[Frédéric Parrenin <frederic parrenin univ-grenoble-alpes fr>]

Answering to myself.
The solution is to delete the file m4/glib-gettext.m4.
Note that gnumeric is also affected.
Maybe it is worth a fix in the build system?

Best,

Frédéric

Le 24/10/2017 à 16:21, Frédéric Parrenin a écrit :
> Dear all,
>
> Today I tried to compile the git version of goffice.
> I get the following error message when running ./autogen.sh:
>
> root@lgge179:/usr/local/goffice# ./autogen.sh
> m4/glib-gettext.m4:39: error: m4_copy: won't overwrite defined macro: 
> glib_DEFUN
> m4/glib-gettext.m4:39: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frédéric