Re: Building medusa HEAD

[mike <mike redtux1 uklinux net>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 03:13, mike wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 02:25, Curtis C. Hovey wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 20:54, mike wrote:
> > > My build chain is the same except
> > > 
> > > >checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
> > > >  testing autoconf2.50... not found.
> > > >  testing autoconf... found 2.57
> > > >checking for automake >= 1.7...
> > > >  testing automake-1.7... found 1.7.8  
> > > 
> > > I have 1.7.6
> > 
> > This looks familiar, I wish I was certain that you should upgrade to
> > 1.7. (automake 1.8.x cannot will not build GNOME unstable).  Jamesh
> > advised me to get my tool chain straight in August of last year, and at
> > that time I upgrade a few micro versions.
> > 
> > I note that jhbuild upgrades automate 1.7.x to 1.7.8 so I recommend
> > doing the upgrade.
> > 
> > > >checking for libtool >= 1.4.3...
> > > >  testing libtoolize... found 1.5
> > > >checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
> > > >  testing glib-gettextize... found 2.2.3
> > > 
> > > I have 2.3 (glib-2.3)
> > 
> > Not an issue.  I built Medusa HEAD against glib 2.2 and 2.3 this
> > morning.
> > 
> > > >checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0...
> > > >  testing pkg-config... found 0.15.0
> > > >Running aclocal-1.7...
> > > >Running libtoolize...
> > > >Running glib-gettextize... Ignore non-fatal messages.
> > > 
> > > Also I have gcc-3.2.2 (as shipped with RH9)
> > 
> > This is OK.  I'm using RH9 too.  I upgraded to gcc 3.3 last month, and I
> > haven't made changes to medusa-idled in months.
> 
> Upgraded to automake-1.7.8 and gcc-3.3 from fedora, effect so far.
> 
> Am now checking out a fresh tree and trying again


It has now built successfully - cheers

I suspect that the key problem is the automake sub-version
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