Re: Gnome, macros, support, intl, compilation problem

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

dov@imagic.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld) writes:
> I've was trying to follow the compilation guide for Gnome but I got an 
> error that does not occur in the text.
> 
> First of all I was a bit confused that CVS pulled out the three
> libraries support, intl, and macros at the top level though I didn't
> ask it to get these macros explicitely.
> 
> Anyhow when I cd to gnome-libs and do 
> 
>    ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local/GNOME --with-gtk-prefix=/usr/local/gnome
> 
> I get he following sequence of errors:
> 
>     `aclocal' will also look in `macros'
>     **Warning**: No such directory `macros'.  Ignored.

Hmm...  Strange.   This error message cannot occur unless the `macros'
subdir exists -- since this message is in `macros/autogen.sh'.

> And that's the end of it. What I don't understand is the complaints
> about intl, macros, and support. They are in the directory above, and as
> I said before how they got there I don't understand. 

I don't understand what you mean by "the directory above".  Does the
directory tree look like

Case 1:

	/some/path/
		  macros/
		  intl/
		  support/
		  gnome-libs/
			libgnome/
			libgnomeui/

Case 2:

	/some/path/
		  gnome-libs/
			macros/
			intl/
			support/
			libgnome/
			libgnomeui/


Case 2 is what it is supposed to look like.  Case 1 could be caused by
an old version of CVS -- please upgrade your `cvs' binary.

If it is Case 1, did you edit `gnome-libs/autogen.sh' to source
`../macros/autogen.sh' rather than `$srcdir/macros/autogen.sh'.  That
could explain why it got so far.

- Hari
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