error building gda branch

[Andreas Köhler]

Hi Graham,

Am Sonntag, den 03.02.2008, 10:08 +1100 schrieb Graham Menhennitt:
> Greetings Gnucash developers. I've been using Gnucash for a year or so
> and thought I'd try testing the gda branch. I'm running Kubuntu Gutsy
> and have installed all the dependencies via Adept.

I suppose you installed the runtime dependencies and not the build
dependencies, right?

Executing `sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash` should do the trick.

> I've checked out the
> gda branch from SVN. When I run autogen.sh, I get the following:
> 
>     $ ./autogen.sh
>     Creating /po/POTFILES.in ...
>     Creating /aclocal.m4 ...
>     Running glib-gettextize --force --copy ...
>     GnuCash note: Please ignore the output of glib-gettextize below!
>     Copying file mkinstalldirs
>     Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
> 
>     Please add the files
>       codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
>       progtest.m4
>     from the /aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
>     or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
>     You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
>     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.
> 
>     GnuCash note: Please ignore the output of glib-gettextize above!
> 
>     Ensure aclocal.m4 is writable ...
>     Ensure po/POTFILES.in is writable ...
>     Running intltoolize --force --copy ...
>     You should update your 'aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
>     Running libtoolize --force --copy ...
>     Running aclocal  -I macros ...
>     configure.in:51: warning: macro `AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2' not found in library

This indicates that libgconf2-dev is missing, see above.

>     Running autoheader...
>     Running automake --add-missing --gnu  ...
>     ... lots of warnings about "probably a GNU make extension",
>     "non-POSIX variable name", and "`:='-style assignments are not
>     portable" elided...
>     **Error**: automake failed.
> 
> If I then run configure, I get:

./autogen.sh failed, so do not run configure now.

>     $ ./configure
--8<--
>     ./configure: line 22698: STRUCT_TM_GMTOFF_CHECK: command not found
>     ./configure: line 22699: SCANF_LLD_CHECK: command not found
>     ./configure: line 22720: syntax error near unexpected token `1.3.28'
>     ./configure: line 22720: `  AC_PROG_SWIG(1.3.28)'
--8<--
> 
> Version are:
> 
>     autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
>     automake (GNU automake) 1.10
> 
> 
> Does somebody know what I've done wrong.

-- andi5