How to build /trunk?

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Mon Apr 18 21:09:41 CEST 2005


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Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> 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?

- From watching the commit list, I believe Olivier had the same problem
and concluded that Ubuntu has a broken set of autotools.  Not sure if he
found a solution, though.

	-brian
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