Compiling source: Makefile.in

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting stephen langenhoven <stephen.langenhoven at gmail.com>:

> I'm trying to build the latest source from svn (this is my first ever
> attempt). I followed the instructions in README.svn, but every time I run
> configure it falls when creating the makefile.in saying it doesn't exist. I
> took a copy from the /gnucash directory and copied to the the various
> locations where it was missing.  I browsed the source in the Trac tool and
> noticed that it's not there either, what obvious thing am I missing?

The README.svn is probably slightly out of date.  Did you run
./autogen.sh first?  Then did you run ./configure ...  (with all
the arguments you need)?

-derek

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