Re: [g-a-devel]Problem Installing Automake

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Malcolm,

Thanks. I'm planning to install Redhat 8.0, so I think I'll just wait a 
few days and get all the correct rpm's and API's.

John

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:36:30AM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > I'm installing Gnome in preparation for adding support for a tactile 
> > graphics printer to libgnomeprint. After downloading gnome-print from CVS, 
> > I tried to build it. Configure said it needed automake, so I got that. 
> > Whe I tried to build automake it said that it needed autoconf, so I got 
> > that. Autoconf built and installed successfully, as evidenced by the 
> > presencee of the man page. Automake also seemed to install, but when I 
> > tried to build gnome-print it again said that it needed automake. There is 
> > also no automake man page. To install automake I followed the install 
> > instructions for automake and tried to install it twice. What could be the 
> > problem? I don't yet have Gnome on my system, since Gnopernicus isn't 
> > really working, but I will soon install Redhat 8.0 on another partition. 
> > Right now I am using Redhat 7.3. 
> > 
> > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> My first suggestion would be to wonder if you really need to build from
> source. It's probably easier to just grab the rpms for automake,
> autoconf and libtool and just install them.
> 
> Also, what version of automake and autoconf did you install? Looking at
> the code, libgnomeprint requires automake-1.4, not automake-1.6, so if
> you just grabbed the latest version you could find, it will not work.
> You need to be able to run
> 
> 	automake-1.4 --version
> 
> and get some useful output.
> 
> Malcolm
> 
> 

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