Re: [Nautilus-list] Configure error from CVS

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Ian McKellar wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:25:23PM -0700, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > I'm compiling Nautilus from CVS on Solaris and getting the following
> > > error:
> > >
> > > ...
> > > checking for GCONF - version >= 0.12... yes
> > > checking for xml-config... /usr/local/bin/xml-config
> > > ./configure: test: argument expected
> > > [ben turing~/proj/nautilus]$
> >
> > Install GNU shell utils (e.g. gnu test). Make sure you have all GNU
> > tools in general...I don't remember if this is a test problem or
> > otherwise. But I know that problems almost identical to this go away if
> > you install GNU everything.
>
> *sigh*
>
> Sadly autoconf seems to make stuff less portable rather than more portable.
>
> *curse* *mumble*

I think it generates portable code when you make dist.

/ Alex