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| − | === Errors in building autoconf: autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /bin/m4 ===
| + | Thanks for the nice cleanup. The discussion is a lot easier to follow now. The build finished somewhere around 2AM this morning, and I can start GNUCash, though I get a few error messages printed to the console. Where should discussions of runtime issues go? The mailing list or another page in this wiki? --[[User:Scbash|Scbash]] 09:46, 28 November 2006 (EST) |
| − | Hi everyone. I spent some of the Thanksgiving weekend trying to build GNUCash in Windows. Everything proceeded fairly well until I got to the autotools section of the build, at which point I got a vague error about requiring m4 version 1.4 or later. Here is the last little bit of the make output before the crash:
| + | :I'd suggest you should add a new section at the very bottom of the [[Windows]] page for each issue you find. Andi and I are checking this page for updates several times a day. We'll forward requests to the mailing list only if we think the other (non-Windows) developers need to be bothered. --[[User:Cstim|Cstim]] 04:29, 29 November 2006 (EST) |
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| − | make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/soft/tmp/autoconf-2.60/lib/m4sugar'
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| − | autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg'
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| − | ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib --language M4sh --cache ''
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| − | The system cannot find the path specified.
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| − | autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /bin/m4
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| − | make[1]: *** [autoconf.in] Error 1
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| − | make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/soft/tmp/autoconf-2.60/bin'
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| − | make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
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| − | On a second try, after only installing msys 1.0.10 and nothing else, and running install.sh, the inst_dtk section outputs:
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| − | msys dtk already installed. skipping.
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| − | which confuses me. I didn't install the DTK.
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| − | :New thought: looking at the inst_dtk function, it checks if "perl --help" returns. I had ActivePerl pre-installed, so that may be the problem, because that test thinks the MSYS DTK is already installed whereas in reality only ActivePerl had been installed.
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| − | ::Okay, forcing the DTK install got it past the m4 error listed above. Looks like my original install of ActivePerl was the problem. I commented out the check for "perl --help" in install.sh, restarted install.sh, and the build seems to be going along fine now. I'll let you know if I run into another issue. Thanks! --[[User:Scbash|scbash]] 21:06, 27 November 2006 (EST)
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| − | :::Thanks for explaining the solution here. I've changed the check for MSYS DTK now so that it looks for the perl executable at the MSYS location. I hope this should fix this issue for others. Eventually this whole section should be moved to the [[Windows]] page, into the troubleshooting section near the bottom. --[[User:Cstim|Cstim]] 03:56, 28 November 2006 (EST)
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| − | ::::Thanks for the nice cleanup. The discussion is a lot easier to follow now. The build finished somewhere around 2AM this morning, and I can start GNUCash, though I get a few error messages printed to the console. Where should discussions of runtime issues go? The mailing list or another page in this wiki? --[[User:Scbash|Scbash]] 09:46, 28 November 2006 (EST)
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| − | === Updates required to automated build scripts ===
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| − | * During my clean build tonight I had to change custom.sh to point to mingw 5.1.0. The 5.0.3 installer references mirror sites that don't seem to have the required files anymore. --[[User:Scbash|scbash]] 20:46, 27 November 2006 (EST)
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| − | * Also had to update libxml to 2.6.27 --[[User:Scbash|Scbash]] 21:24, 27 November 2006 (EST)
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| − | :Thanks. I've updated the version numbers in custom.sh accordingly. --[[User:Cstim|Cstim]] 03:56, 28 November 2006 (EST)
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Thanks for the nice cleanup. The discussion is a lot easier to follow now. The build finished somewhere around 2AM this morning, and I can start GNUCash, though I get a few error messages printed to the console. Where should discussions of runtime issues go? The mailing list or another page in this wiki? --Scbash 09:46, 28 November 2006 (EST)
