Compiling the CVS head

Chris Lyttle chris@wilddev.net
19 Jun 2002 11:00:36 -0700


On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 10:37, Eildert Groeneveld wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 June 2002 18:37, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Eildert Groeneveld <eg@tzv.fal.de> writes:
> > > should be rather recent, perhaps that is the problem?
> >
> > Well, it _should_ work, but yea, that is what is causing the problem.
> > Granted, it _should_ be working, but I think I found a bug in hampton's
> > code.  I'm checking out a patch now..
> >
> > > eg(eno,Mail): autoconf --version
> > > autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.53
> > > Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
> > >
> > > Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
> > > NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> > > PURPOSE.
> >
> > Try 'cvs -q up' now to get this patch and try again.
> 
> 
> that was a swift reaction, alas....
> 
> >autoheader: `config.h.in' is unchanged
> Running automake --gnu  ...
> Running autoconf ...
> configure.in:838: error: do not use LIBOBJS directly, use AC_LIBOBJ (see 
> section `AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS'
> **Error**: autoconf failed.
> 
> 
> configure.in was patched, right
> 
I compile CVS on RH 7.2 often, in fact I compiled it on monday with no
problems. The only extra packages I needed over the base install were,
Guile 1.4 - CVS 'should' really require this version. I know people have
said it works with 1.3 but I have seen all sorts of wierd problems go
away by upgrading to 1.4
G-wrap 1.3.2 - This is required by CVS. You can parallel install it with
1.2.1 but need to set an env variable to use it in another location. I
dont know, however, exactly what that is as I removed the older version
on my 7.2 system.
Finally you must make sure all your gnome packages have the -devel
versions installed. RH often doesn't do this by default.

Chris

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