Re: [Tracker] build from git instead of tarball, build errors cont

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 26/09/11 06:58, Björn Johansson wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> I installed vala from the latest tarball. I removed the old vala using
> synaptic and reinstalled. I also installed something called autopoint.
>
> to test if vala is ok?:
> bjorn bjorn-laptop:~/Desktop/tracker$ valac --version
> Vala 0.14.0
>
> now it is a bit better (se below), but still fails in the end over
> things in the "Makefile.am".
>
> thanks for any hint on how to proceed...

> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force
> autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
> configure.ac:105 <http://configure.ac:105>: installing `./compile'
> configure.ac:53 <http://configure.ac:53>: installing `./missing'
> docs/tools/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
> src/libtracker-extract/Makefile.am:82: HAVE_INTROSPECTION does not
> appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> src/libtracker-extract/Makefile.am:83: INTROSPECTION_CFLAGS must be set
> with `=' before using `+='
> src/libtracker-miner/Makefile.am:164: HAVE_INTROSPECTION does not appear
> in AM_CONDITIONAL
> src/libtracker-miner/Makefile.am:165: INTROSPECTION_CFLAGS must be set
> with `=' before using `+='
> src/libtracker-sparql/Makefile.am:82: HAVE_INTROSPECTION does not appear
> in AM_CONDITIONAL
> Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

You need the introspection packages installed. On Ubuntu its' 
gobject-introspection IIRC. I think you may also need 
libgirepository1.0-dev.

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.