Re: depcomp file missing for atk and pango builds

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Ray Zuniga <rvz lucent com> writes:

> I'm trying to build gtk-2.0.2.  I've had success building the
> libraries atk-1.0.1, pango-1.0.1, and gtk for i686-pc-linux-gnu but
> I'm getting a similar error across multiple platforms when either I
> build the atk library or the pango library.
> 
> The systems having the problem are:  hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20,
> s390-ibm-linux-gnu, and sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1.
> 
> The file depcomp is not found and the builds terminate.  On the
> successful 686 linux build, I didn't see this file generated or used
> and I don't see references to this file in the initial download of
> the source for atk and pango.  The references only appear on the
> troubled systems after the configure is executed.
> 
> Does anyone know how this file is generated?  I've included the
> output from the sparc-sun-solaris build.

This is a symptom of running 'automake' with a new version
of automake (1.5 or greater) but not running automake -a.

There should be no reason to run automake when building
with the distributed tarballs... they should work as
distributed, See the installation guide at:

 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html

For detailed instructions.

Regards,
                                        Owen