gtk / pango / autoconf problems

[Antony Courtney <antony apocalypse org>]

Hi all,

I am posting this here because this same issue came up on this list in a 
previous thread:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2000-November/msg00036.html

...but the recommended workaround in that thread isn't working, at least 
not for me.

I am attempting to build enough of gnome from the cvs repository to be 
able to play with librsvg.  Unfortunately, I can't even succesfully 
build pango on my RedHat 7.2 system.

I have downloaded and installed the latest glib from the gnome cvs 
repository, and am using autoconf 2.52 and pkg-config 0.12.0, installed 
from sources.

For reasons I can't fathom, both my PKG_CONFIG_PATH and my ACLOCAL_FLAGS 
seem to be completely ignored:

bash-2.05$ echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
/usr/local/gnome2/share/aclocal
bash-2.05$ echo $ACLOCAL_FLAGS
-I /usr/local/gnome2/share/aclocal
bash-2.05$ grep AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 /usr/local/gnome2/share/aclocal/*.m4
/usr/local/gnome2/share/aclocal/glib-2.0.m4:dnl 
AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0([MINIMUM-VERSION, [ACTION-IF-FOUND [, 
ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND [, MODULES]]]])
/usr/local/gnome2/share/aclocal/glib-2.0.m4:AC_DEFUN(AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0,
bash-2.05$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local/gnome2
[...]
./configure: line 8943: syntax error near unexpected token 
`AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0($GLIB_REQUIRED_VERSION,'
./configure: line 8943: `AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0($GLIB_REQUIRED_VERSION, :,'

Has anyone else encountered this problem?  Is there any systematic way 
to track down *why* my ACLOCAL_FLAGS seem to be ignored?

Any help would be appreciated.  Please include me directly in the "To:" 
or "Cc:" line, as I'm not subscribed to this list.

Thanks,

    -Antony Courtney

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Antony Courtney
Grad. Student, Dept. of Computer Science, Yale University
antony apocalypse org          http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/antony