Re: [orca-list] updating orca on opensuse

[Mike Gorse <mgorse mgorse dhs org>]

glib-gettext.m4 is part of glib2-devel, and pkg.m4 is part of pkg-config. I'm 
guessing that you don't have these packages installed.

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Aruni Sharma wrote:

> Hi Bryan, I did as you said. However, I am facing the following error.
> /usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
> checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
> testing autoconf2.50... not found.
> testing autoconf... found 2.61
> checking for automake >= 1.9...
> testing automake-1.10... not found.
> testing automake-1.9... found 1.9
> checking for libtool >= 1.4.3...
> testing libtoolize... found 1.4.3
> checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
> testing glib-gettextize... found 2.16.3
> checking for intltool >= 0.25...
> testing intltoolize... found 0.40.3
> Checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0...
> testing pkg-config... found 0.23
> checking for gnome-common >= 2.3.0...
> testing gnome-doc-common... found 2.20.0
> Checking for required M4 macros...
> glib-gettext-m4 not found
> pkg-m4 not found
> ***error:*** some autoconf macros required to build orca were not found in 
> your aclocal path or some forbidden macros were found. Perhaps you need to 
> adjust your ACLOCAL_FLAGS
>
>
> Regards,
> Aruni.
> Brian G. Merrell wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 02:58:09AM -0400, Aruni Sharma wrote:
> >
> > > Hi after much effort I am unable to update orca through svn trunk or
> > > otherwise. I would like to use the latest version of orca so that I
> > > can dettermine whether there is some improvement in accessibility in
> > > opensuse 11. I am otherwise very happy with this particular distro.
> >
> > Assuming you're on a 32-bit openSUSE machine:
> >
> > 1. Update intltool
> >
> >         a.  First, remove intltool by running:  zypper rm intltool (as root)
> >
> >         b.  svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/intltool/trunk intltool ;
> >              cd intltool
> >
> >         c.  ./autogen ; make ; sudo make install
> >
> > 2. Install python development packages
> >
> >         a.  zypper in python-devel (run this as root)
> >
> > 3. Update Orca
> >
> >         a.  First, remove orca by running:  zypper rm orca (as root)
> >
> >         b.  svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/trunk orca ;
> >             cd orca
> >
> >         c.  ./autogen ; make ; sudo make install
> >
> > That should be all you need.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian G. Merrell
>
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