autogen.sh failing with po/ and needs libtoolize --force

[Carol Spears]

hi, thanks for responding

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:44:22AM -0300, Rodrigo Coacci wrote:
> Well first of all, which script are you using? AFAIK there were two versions
> of scripts, one from me (kinda older, bash+svn based) and one more recently
> (from someone else).
> My script still works fine for me, basicly svn up && autogen.sh && make &&
> make install
> Maybe the script you are using has some prefix or other things hardcoded and
> the hardcoded stuff is not suitable to your system. For exemple, my script
> has --prefix and --sysconfdir hardcoded for all packages.
> 
i have never configured with --sysconfdir in my whole configuration
history.  right after sending this off, i should probably read what the
configure --help says about that.

this script is somewhat more complicated than that.  it has been edited
since i downloaded it, so i uploaded the edited version to
http://www.gimp.org/~carol/gtk/xfce/install.sh

my apologies to the invested person who shared a script on this list
many months ago.  at that time, i still thought that i could do all of
this building myself and stay interested....  it is possibly one of the
least of the things i have been wrong about.

then i tried ./autogen.sh --pre=/usr/local/myspecialplace and it failed
the same way:

Running intltoolize --automake --copy --force
cp: cannot create regular file `po/Makefile.in.in': No such file or
directory
intltoolize: cannot copy '/usr/share/intltool/Makefile.in.in' to
'po/Makefile.in.in'

i read this message and actually attempted to copy that file from
/usr/local/share/intltool myself and it did not work to make this build
attempt a success.

btw, "myspecialplace" is equal to "edge" which bothers me today as i
read it is the name of the next debian version after etch.  i am sorry,
actually, for the choice of name because it involves an extra tab on the
commandline because of the similar naming of env.  so, live and
learn....

thanks,

carol