Problems building from CVS

Michael Vrable vrable at cs.hmc.edu
Thu Aug 14 14:45:18 CDT 2003


On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 05:02:13PM -0300, Jon Lapham wrote:
> Jonathan Ard wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >  I'm not sure if this is where I should be posting this.  If not, I 
> >  apologize.  I am trying to build GnuCash from the latest sources in CVS, 
> >  but I am running into a problem.  I am fully prepared to admin that I 
> >  have no idea what I am doing, and the problem is most likely related to 
> >  that.  I looked through what documentation I could find, and I think I 
> >  am doing what I should be doing.  Anyway, I try to run the autogen.sh 
> >  script with my configure options and I get this error:
> >
> >WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
> >WARNING: documentation.
> >configure.in:1265: error: `intl/Makefile' is already registered with 
> >AC_CONFIG_FILES.
> >autoconf/status.m4:844: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
> >configure.in:1265: the top level
> >autom4te-2.57: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> >autoheader-2.57: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> >**Error**: autoheader failed.
> 
> cvs update -C configure.in
> 
> should fix the problem

This is a documented problem in README.cvs.

I'm not very familiar with how gettextize works.  Is it possible to
modify the files in CVS so this doesn't happen?  Or do attempts to fix
it only break it with other versions of gettext?

--Michael Vrable


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