compiling CVS problem

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 13:35, Michal Szymanski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To get the long-awaited (:-) taskbar feature I've downloaded the CVS
> version, untarred, ran 'configure' exactly as in the Olivier's post,
> then 'make'. First, it complained saying:
> 
> cd . && autoheader
> FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.52 or higher is required for this script
> 
> but went further. Finally, however, it failed: on "snprintf.c":

Looks like someone beat me to the fix of configure.in, although it
should have aborted then and there. If you don't have autoconf 2.52,
there is no use continuing. I believe autoconf2.53 does not work either,
but this may have changed.

Edscott

> 
> snprintf.c: In function `dopr':
> snprintf.c:269: `short int' is promoted to `int' when passed through `...'
> snprintf.c:269: (so you should pass `int' not `short int' to `va_arg')
> snprintf.c:279: `short unsigned int' is promoted to `int' when passed 
>   through `...'
> snprintf.c:289: `short unsigned int' is promoted to `int' when passed 
>   through `...'
> snprintf.c:301: `short unsigned int' is promoted to `int' when passed 
> through `...'
> make[2]: *** [snprintf.lo] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/386/msz/xfce-stable/libs'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/386/msz/xfce-stable'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> 
> Any idea what's wrong? Can this final failure be consequence of 'autoconf' 
> problem at start?
> 
> regards, Michal.
> 
> PS. Environment: Linux RH7.2, 2.4.9-13, gcc-2.96-98, glibc-2.2.4-19.3
> 
> -- 
>   Michal Szymanski (msz at astrouw.edu.pl)
>   Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND
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