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

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Fri, 3 Jul 2009 18:17:34 -0700
schrieb 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
> 

This is wrong. run either ./autogen.sh or manually: 

autoheader
libtoolize --force --copy 
(depending on libtool version you might also need --install)
aclocal -I m4
autoconf

> 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
> 

... well, normally it is shipped, somehow I forgot it for 0.18.6 (...)

> ./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!
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
> 
> 
>