Re: compiling glade

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan vanberkom codethink co uk>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2018-03-22 at 14:52 +0100, arkkimede wrote:
> HI!
> I want to install the latest version of glade downloaded from git-hub.
>
> I read the instruction.
>
> There is written that configure.ac or configure.in is used to generate the
> script configure.
> To do that execute the command autoconf.
>
> I executed this command but some macro are missed
>
> Searching I found who write:
> to solve the problem run "autoreconf -fvi".
>
> Running this command it ends with this error:
>
> automake: error: cannot open < gtk-doc.make: No such file or directory
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
>
> consider that I've installed
>
> libgtk-3-doc
> gtk-doc-tools.
>
> Please, could you help me?

First just noting, this question would be better targeted at the Glade
users mailing list: glade-users lists ximian com

But I'll just answer you here anyway :)

I suggest you use the most recent tarball release, which is very
recent; at:

  https://download.gnome.org/sources/glade/3.22/glade-3.22.0.tar.xz

Otherwise, to build directly from the official upstream git repository,
which can be found at: https://git.gnome.org/browse/glade (if there is
a github, it is either only a mirror, or it is someone's private fork),
you should use the autogen.sh script, feeding it directly the arguments
you would normally pass to ./configure

When building directly from git, you have a couple of extra
requirements, so it is a little bit harder than just using the release
tarball - you will need at least gtkdocize, and I think libtoolize,
along with the m4-common macros.

Note that once you have *built* Glade, you need to install it, you can
install it to any prefix you like, it need not be installed to /usr,
but it will not run directly from the build directory.

Cheers,
    -Tristan