RE: Building in maemo: m4 macros not found

[<Dirk-Jan Binnema nokia com>]

Hi Philip, 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: tinymail-devel-list-bounces gnome org 
>[mailto:tinymail-devel-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of 
>ext Philip Van Hoof
>Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 18:16
>To: Sergio Villar Senin
>Cc: tinymail-devel-list gnome org
>Subject: Re: Building in maemo: m4 macros not found
>
>On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 08:54 +0200, Sergio Villar Senin wrote:
>> Murray Cumming wrote:
>> > I'm having some trouble building tinymail from svn in a Maemo Bora 
>> > scratchbox environment. I wonder if anybody can see what's 
>wrong. I 
>> > have all the usual autoconf,automake,libtool stuff 
>installed, and I 
>> > installed gnome-common from apt-get for this. Is it 
>necessary to set 
>> > ACLOCAL_FLAGS to something?
>> 
>> Yeah, it's easy to fix that (yes I know Philip, it should be in the 
>> trac
>> :-) ). The m4 files are already supplied by the scratchbox 
>but they're 
>> located in paths not included by default in the search path. So for 
>> example I have the following in my .bashrc:
>> 
>> export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="$ACLOCAL_FLAGS -I 
>> /scratchbox/tools/share/aclocal -I 
>> /scratchbox/compilers/`/scratchbox/tools/bin/sb-conf show 
>> -c`/arch_tools/share/aclocal/ -I 
>/scratchbox/devkits/doctools/share/aclocal/"
>
>Can this manual fix somehow be automated, to ease the build 
>procedure of tinymail on bora?

Well, it's a bug in Bora (I have reported it); I am not sure
it's worth hacking a work around, which might cause trouble
later.

Best wishes,
Dirk.