Hello, On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 11:41:33AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > I'm building part of GPE that was recently updated to support > autotools.
in fact, you are not using "pure autotools". Your configure.ac
looks very similar to the ones I see in the Gnome project.
[See the footnote.]
To build a project from Gnome, I usually start by running ./autogen.sh,
checked out from the CVS with the project. This is a small script,
which calls gnome-autogen.sh from the package gnome-common for the
actual work.
To create autogen.sh, grab a tamplate and adjust it. I'm attaching
one, based on goffice/autogen.sh .
> The build process is failing because it cannot find mkinstalldirs.
When I tried gnumeric/autogen.sh, the mkinstalldirs script was
installed by glib-gettextize, which is called from autogen.sh.
> AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
> AC_PROG_INTLTOOL([0.23])
When you use glib-gettext, you could perhaps make sure you are using
the latest version. It comes with glib, so you could try glib-2.6.4
You might also try to use the latest intltools, as suggested in the
attached autogen.sh.
(I don't sit at #gnome, but if you wanted to contact me, you can try
#kasal at irc.gnome.org or irc.freenode.net.)
Hope this helps,
Stepan Kasal
Footnote:
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Unfortunately, the "Gnome development environment" has diverged
slightly from pure autotools. I don't like it, I'd like to see the two
devel. environments to converge back, and I want to help with it...
Anyway, the situation is as it is. So you'd get better help in the
gnome community, eg. in the channel #gnome at irc.gnome.org.
autogen.sh
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