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

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:31:57 -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
> >>
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> > This is wrong. run either ./autogen.sh or manually:
> 
> As I've said ./autogen.sh fails. This is the output:
> 
> 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
> 
> All of the above is in a freshly unpacked directory. I've opened a bug
> report for this:
> 

mkdir m4

to create the missing directory

> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587776
> 

closed, as seen above, NOTABUG

> 
> > autoheader
> > libtoolize --force --copy
> > (depending on libtool version you might also need --install)
> > aclocal -I m4
> > autoconf
> 
> As I've said this also fails. The output of libtoolize --force --copy
> is
> 
> You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to
> `aclocal.m4'.
> 

This is not a bug, ignore that message.

> >> 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
> > (...)
> 
> An update would be nice, then.
> 

I'll do 0.18.6r2 now.

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

Chris