Re: [Tracker] Possible Bug in CVS Configure

[Erlend Davidson <E R M Davidson sms ed ac uk>]

Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 11/11/2006 alle 17.48 +0000, Erlend Davidson ha scritto:
>   
> > Install from cvs fails during configure:
> >
> > checking for intltool >= 0.22... awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open
> > file `./intltool-update.in' for reading (No such file or directory)
> > awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `./intltool-update.in' for
> > reading (No such file or directory)
> >  found
> > ./configure: line 23216: test: : integer expression expected
> > configure: error: Your intltool is too old.  You need intltool 0.22 or
> > later.
> >     
>
> Sorry for this issue, but we need more info to identify it.
>
> First: when _exactly_ this failure occurs?
> After a 'cvs checkout' or a 'cvs update'?
>   
I get this error for both a clean checkout and also updating.
> The l10n support for tracker was previously available in your sandbox or
> this was the fist time that tracker was configuring it?
> Did you launched `./configure' or './autogen.sh'
>   
./configure
> The intltool check that was added in ./configure.in is the same used in
> all other GNOME modules. So I suspect the issue is not in configure
> itself.
>
> The reason of the failure could be an 'unpaired' auto<stuff>. A similar
> (or maybe the same) message I seen when I tried to re-configure a module
> after a change in auto<stuff> (for example update from 1.6 to 1.9: the
> intltoll-* files in source directory was still referring to the old
> version, so a `make distclean` could be needed - or remove and
> re-checkout the full sources tree)
>
> Another question is: which version of auto*[1] are you using? Not the
> installed, the version used by tracker build system. To check it, run
> `./autogen.sh` and take a look at messages in bold before the usual
> configure output.
>
> Your problem could help tracker to pick up the proper version of
> autotools.
>
> PS could you try to remove tracker source tree and restart from scratch?
> If this works, it was simply a version mismatch issue.
>
> [1] aclocal, automake, autoconf
>
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