Need some help building gnucash from svn

[Derek Atkins]

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I'm glad that it worked.  I've added some more text to autogen
to make it even more clear...   But at some level it starts looking
like the US Tort system where you cater to the people who don't realize
that a cup of coffee is hot and that you might burn yourself if you
spill it on your lap.  *sigh*

-derek

Quoting Schuyler J Wavrek I <swavrek at wavrek.com>:

> Thank you very much!  gnucash built successfully and the bug is gone.
>
> There are 2 references to aclocal in the output from autogen.sh.
> There's lots of verbage above the
>
> GnuCash note: Please ignore the output of glib-gettextize above!
>
> line but
>
> You should update your 'aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
>
> appeared below it.  So, my guess was the one reference outside the
> exclusion zone was valid.  Anyway, not running aclocal fixed my problem.
>
> Thanks again,
> Sky
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 14:14 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Quoting Schuyler J Wavrek I <swavrek at wavrek.com>:
>>
>> > I've been asked to check the resolution on a bug I submitted some time
>> > ago.  So, I want to build a current version of gnucash.  I previously
>> > successfully built g-wrap and gnucash 1.9... from the tar files.  I've
>> > got an up2date FC5 system.  Here's the steps and the problems I
>> > encountered:
>> >
>> > export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
>> > svn checkout http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash
>> > cd trunk
>> > ./autogen.sh
>> >
>> > It suggested I run aclocal, which produced the warnings:
>>
>> It also tells you to ignore any suggestion to run aclocal by hand.
>> Just run autogen.sh and then run configure.
>>
>> > aclocal:configure.in:232: warning: macro `AM_GUILE_VERSION_CHECK' not
>> > found in library
>> > aclocal:configure.in:247: warning: macro `AM_PATH_GWRAP' not found in
>> > library
>> >
>> > ./configure ran OK.
>> >
>> > make failed:
>> >
>> > cd . && /bin/sh /mnt/USBe/swavrek/trunk/missing --run automake-1.9 --gnu
>> > cd . && /bin/sh /mnt/USBe/swavrek/trunk/missing --run autoconf
>> > configure.in:99: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
>> >      If this token and others are legitimate, please use
>> > m4_pattern_allow.
>> >      See the Autoconf documentation.
>> > configure.in:236: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_SCRUB_INCLUDE
>> > configure.in:245: error: possibly undefined macro:
>> > AM_GUILE_VERSION_CHECK
>> > configure.in:260: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_GWRAP
>> > configure.in:284: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_GWRAP_CHECK_GUILE
>> > make: *** [configure] Error 1
>> >
>> > Any suggestions on what's wrong and how I might correct it?
>>
>> You ran alocal by hand.  Don't do that.
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Sky
>>
>> -derek
>>
>
>



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