trouble building from cvs (fails in /src/doc/design)

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
07 Jun 2002 09:47:56 -0400


When you run configure with --enable-maintainer-mode it should create
that the version.texi file.  When you run autogen.sh, it runs
configure properly.  Did you, perhaps, re-run configure by hand after
running autogen.sh?

-derek

ofaaland@attbi.com writes:

> Hi again, 
>  
> I figured out that the problem is that I am missing 
> 'version.texi' from that directory.  The file that 
> includes it, gnucash-design.texinfo, states in a 
> comment that configure was supposed to create it for 
> me.  Is that true? 
>  
> In the meantime, I created it with 'touch', and let 
> things continue.  The resulting .info file seems fine, 
> but maybe I'm missing something. 
>  
> Let me know if there's anything else I should do.  I 
> apologize if this was in the list archives or 
> documents, somewhere.  Now that I know what was missing 
> I'll go back and search again. 
>  
> thanks, 
> Olaf 
> > Hi,   
> >    
> > This is the first time I've attempted to build gnucash   
> > in several months, and I'm doing it on a system that   
> > has been loaded from scratch, so my environment may  
> > well be missing something.  I searched the list  
> > archives and the documentation in the source and wasn't  
> > able to find an answer.  Thanks in advance for your   
> > help.   
> >    
> > I'm trying to build the current cvs   
> > (development/unstable branch) as of Wed Jun  5 20:41:13   
> > PDT 2002.  I'm building it on a virgin redhat 7.3 with  
> > all the development libraries and tools installed.   
> > G-wrap was the only software I had to install to  
> > satisfy autogen and configure.  
> >   
> > Here are the versions of the tools I thought might be  
> > pertinent:  
> >   
> > docbook-dtds-1.0-8  
> > docbook-style-dsssl-1.76-1  
> > openjade-1.3.1-4  
> > docbook-utils-0.6.9-25  
> > docbook-utils-pdf-0.6.9-25  
> > texinfo-4.1-1  
> > jadetex-3.12-2  
> > docbook-style-xsl-1.49-1  
> >   
> > When I run make, it doesn't get very far.  Here are the  
> > last few lines.  If you want more, I would be happy to  
> > provide the output of 'make clean' and './configure'  
> > and 'make', and/or anything else that would help.  
> >   
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/olaf/dev/gnucash/lib'  
> > Making all in src  
> > make[2]: Entering directory  
> > `/home/olaf/dev/gnucash/src'  
> > Making all in doc  
> > make[3]: Entering directory  
> > `/home/olaf/dev/gnucash/src/doc'  
> > Making all in design  
> > make[4]: Entering directory  
> > `/home/olaf/dev/gnucash/src/doc/design'  
> > cd . \  
> >   && makeinfo `echo gnucash-design.texinfo | sed  
> > 's,.*/,,'`  
> > gnucash-design.texinfo:9: @include `version.texi': No  
> > such file or directory.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:127: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry `gnc:register-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:144: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry  
> > `gnc:make-simple-boolean-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:161: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry  
> > `gnc:make-complex-boolean-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:174: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry `gnc:make-string-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:180: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry `gnc:make-date-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:210: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry  
> > `gnc:make-multichoice-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:228: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry `gnc:make-list-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:236: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry `gnc:make-font-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:244: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry `gnc:make-color-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:255: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry `gnc:make-currency-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:262: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry  
> > `gnc:make-account-list-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:265: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry `gnc:make-internal-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:272: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry  
> > `gnc:make-number-range-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:286: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry `gnc:lookup-option'.  
> > ./user-preferences.texinfo:297: warning: Info cannot  
> > handle `:' in index entry `gnc:option-value'.  
> > makeinfo: Removing output file  
> > `/home/olaf/dev/gnucash/src/doc/design/gnucash-design.info'  
> > due to errors; use --force to preserve.  
> > make[4]: *** [gnucash-design.info] Error 2  
> > make[4]: Leaving directory  
> > `/home/olaf/dev/gnucash/src/doc/design'  
> > make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1  
> > make[3]: Leaving directory  
> > `/home/olaf/dev/gnucash/src/doc'  
> > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1  
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/olaf/dev/gnucash/src'  
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1  
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/olaf/dev/gnucash'  
> > make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2  
> >  
> > Thanks again, 
> > Olaf 
> >   
> >    
> >    
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