Re: [SF] [SF] [ANNOUNCE] sawfish-1.5.0

[Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson googlemail com>]

>>> > Try:
>>> >
>>> >     ./autogen.sh
>>>
>>> This gives
>>>
>>> Running autoheader
>>> Running libtoolize
>>> You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to
>>> `aclocal.m4'.
>>> Running aclocal
>>> aclocal: couldn't open directory `m4': No such file or directory
>>
>> Here it gives:
>>
>>     ./autogen.sh
>>     Running autoheader
>>     Running libtoolize
>>     libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
>>     libtoolize: copying file `./config.guess'
>>     libtoolize: copying file `./config.sub'
>>     libtoolize: copying file `./install-sh'
>>     libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
>>     libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
>>     libtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
>>     libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
>>     libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
>>     libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
>>     libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
>>     libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in
>> Makefile.am.
>>     Running aclocal
>>     Running autoconf
>>
>> As you see the m4 dir gets created here out of libtoolize
>> benevolence, which is part of libtool-2.2.6-11.fc11.i586 RPM.
>> Is it installed at your end?
>
> I have libtool-1.5.24-3.fc8 as you can see it's Fedora 8. The
> autogen.sh script explicitly checks for libtool 1.5 but that doesn't
> seem to help. After all the following does create a configure script,
> instead of running autogen.sh:
>
> cp /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 aclocal.m4
> autoheader
> libtoolize --force --copy
> autoconf

Actually, the above does create a configure script, but both

./configure --prefix=/home/fetchinson/tmp/sawfish

and

./configure --prefix=/home/fetchinson/tmp/sawfish
--with-rep-prefix=/home/fetchinson/tmp/sawfish

fail with the following (I've installed librep to /home/fetchinson/tmp/sawfish):

./configure: line 19698: syntax error near unexpected token `LIBREP,'
./configure: line 19698: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBREP, librep >= $REP_MIN_VER'

By the way, I did export export
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/fetchinson/tmp/sawfish/lib/pkgconfig

Any ideas? It would be great to have the newest sawfish, currently I'm
still running the latest JH version 1.3

Cheers,
Daniel

> Honestly, I don't quite understand why there is this autogen.sh script
> anyway. Why can't the packaged archive contain a reasonable configure
> script to begin with? The rep-gtk code doesn't seem to be more
> complicated than other software which are happily shipped with a
> configure script. Or am I overlooking something? In any case the user
> experience could be increased greatly if the installation of sawfish
> would not involve all sorts of trickery, but the simple
>
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> cycle on each of the dependencies (librep, rep-gtk, sawfish).
>
> In any case, thanks for the hard work guys, it's good to see that
> sawfish is alive again!



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