[Thunar-dev] Newbie question

[Rodrigo Coacci]

Finnaly I found it. It seems that Debian's default automake (version 1.4) 
was too old and didn't have the macros required. So I installed
automake 1.9and it finally worked. Thanks everybody for helping me and
sorry for
bothering you with that.

2005/6/12, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu>:
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> Rodrigo Coacci wrote:
> > Well I used some brute force and made xfce4-dev-tools work, but now exo
> > won't autogen either.... It's also missing a macro, this time is
> > AM_PATH_PYTHON...
> 
> Probably because you don't have python installed, or, if you're using a
> binary package distro, some kind of python-dev package.
> 
> Unfortunately, occasionally the auto* tools will require that you have
> certain dependencies installed, even if you don't intend to use them.
> That's actually a crappy explanation, but I'm too tired to come up with
> anything better.
> 
> 
> > It also complains about copying some m4 files from
> > aclocal dir to autoconf dir. Seems to me that there are some missing
> > configuration and/or files in debian-unstable autoconf or even an weird
> > incompatibility in configure.ac... Any ideas?
> 
> IIRC that's just a warning and is harmless (assuming you're getting the
> message I think you're getting; pasting the output generally helps avoid
> confusion).
> 
> -brian
> 
> >
> > 2005/6/11, Rodrigo Coacci <rcoacci at gmail.com <mailto:rcoacci at gmail.com
> >>:
> >
> > Well I using Debian (unstable) default autoconf package, version
> > 2.59, installed in /usr/bin, and I don't seem to have that variable
> > set (ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS), since an echo on that results to nothing
> >
> >
> > Well, this looks pretty much like a b0rked autoconf
> > installation. Both
> > AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME and AC_PACKAGE_VERSION are provided by autoconf
> > itself. Where did you install autoconf? Which version? Value of
> > $ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS?
> >
> > greets,
> > Benedikt
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> >
> > I'll try to uninstall and reinstall autoconf to see what happens
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Rodrigo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Abraços,
> > Rodrigo
> >
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-- 
Cheers,
Rodrigo
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