Re: Autoconf problems

[Adi Dascal <ad baum ro>]

Hi Nolan,

Please see my comments in the body of the mail.

On Saturday 29 March 2003 02:29, Nolan J. Darilek wrote:
> I've somehow gotten gnopernicus past the errors which plagued me for
> months. Hazarding an uneducated guess makes me suspect Debian's
> formerly-outdated atk/gail/cspi packages. I'd installed fresh CVS
> checkouts, but apparently Debian's GTK packages were linking to the
> "official" versions instead.
>
> Now I'm having autoconf problems with the latest CVS checkout,
> automake 1.73 and autoconf 2.57. Specifically, configure runs fine
> until:
>
> checking for ISO C99 varargs macros in C... yes
> checking whether to enable ipv6... no
> configure: error: conditional "am__fastdepCXX" was never defined.
> Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.
>
> A quick google search reveals the following:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-automake/2002/msg02066.html
>
> Though, unfortunately, my autoconf skills are limited to running
> autoheader/autoconf/automake/libtool and making very basic edits. :)
>
I've tested gnopernicus only with automake 1.7.3 and 1.4, but the problem 
that you are indicating is not apearing to me. I really encourage you to use 
automake-1.4, because, besides atk that requires automake 1.7.x ,I don't know 
other module from CVS (accessibility modules) that are working with automake 
1.7.x. Did you tried to build/compile gail with your GNU tools? Does it work 
for you?
I guarantee you that gnopernicus is building with automake-1.4 and 
autoconf-2.57.

In the mean time I will check what is happening with your version of automake.

> I've also experienced autoconf problems with the latest CVS checkout
> of gnome-speech:
>
> checking for eciNew in -libmeci50... yes
> checking for TextToSpeechSync in -ltts... no
> ./configure: line 8707: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> ./configure: line 8707: `  echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6'
>
> Any idea as to what may be causing either of these?
>


For gnome-speech there is a bug in configure.in. Please look at bug number 
109411 from bugzilla

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109411

 and apply the proposed patch OR simply remove the quotation marks at line 
128 from gnome-speech' configure.in . This will solve the problem that you 
are indicating.


HTH && Best regards,
Adi Dascal
BAUM Engineering

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