How to build /trunk?

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Jannis Pohlmann schrieb:

> Jannis Pohlmann schrieb:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I just read Olivier's excited mail to this list so I checked out 
>> /trunk in order to inform
>> myself about the development status.
>>
>> Unfortunately the way to build Xfce from the source has changed since 
>> you moved
>> to SVN (I read about several discussions concerning the build 
>> scripts). What will
>> I have to do in order to build the modules step by step?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Jannis
>>
> After having read a little more I know now that I will have to build 
> xfce4-dev-tools at
> first. Here we are with a new problem:
>
> jannis at localhost ~/Devel/Xfce/trunk/xfce4-dev-tools 550 $ ./autogen.sh
>
> automake: configure.ac: installing `./install-sh'
> automake: configure.ac: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
> automake: configure.ac: installing `./missing'
> automake: configure.ac: installing `./config.guess'
> automake: configure.ac: installing `./config.sub'
> configure.ac:30: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME
>      If this token and others are legitimate, please use 
> m4_pattern_allow.
>      See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:30: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION
>
> I'm using autoconf 2.59r-2 (Debian/Ubuntu).
>
> Does anyone have an idea how to get this working?
>
> Regards,
> Jannis
>
I finally got it: I had automake-1.4 installed and that wouldn't work.

Jannis