Error compiling

[Olivier Fourdan]

PAtrick,

You've been hit by the infamous autoconf problem. This proves that it
was unrelated to "removing the last line in configure.in"

Try using ./autogen.sh in place of ./configure (with same options) and
see it that helps.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 21:56, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Sat, 18 May 2002, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> 
> > I downloaded the CVS snapshot (because the taskbar, although I'm not much
> > enamored of them in general, sounds pretty neat) and I get this error when
> > compiling:
> 
> [...]
> 
> I used cvs to get the current xfce-stable, and that doesn't compile for me
> either, with this error:
> 
> Making all in libs
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/xfce-stable/libs'
> cd .. && automake --gnu --include-deps libs/Makefile
> automake: configure.in: required file `./depcomp' not found
> /usr/share/automake/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> /usr/share/automake/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> /usr/share/automake/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> /usr/share/automake/am/lang-compile.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> make[2]: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/xfce-stable/libs'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/xfce-stable'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> Just to make sure that it wasn't my recent "upgrade" from potato to woody
> that was causing difficulty, I recompiled 3.8.14c (the most recent version
> I had around) and it compiled flawlessly.
> 
> Patrick
> 
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