Re: Compiling gnome-mag, gnome-speech and gnopernicus

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 04:35:59PM -0700, Don Raikes wrote:
> Hello,
> I just finished installing gnome 2.2 via garnome-0.23.1.
> 
> Once the garnome process was complete, I retrieved gnome-mag, gnome-speech and gnopernicus from cvs.
> When I run autogen.sh on any of the three packages I get 
> the following messages, and no Makefile is generated.

*waving hand in the air*
Pick me, pick me ... I know this one! :-)

You have upgraded your gnome-common module recently and there are some
holdovers from the older gnome-common module floating around. A couple
of months ago now, the standard autogen.sh script was updated and as
part of the update it now has a brief attempt to try and work out if you
have not upgraded cleanly. This involves checking for
gnome-cxx-check.m4/

The general feeling was that the pain of this upgrade only affects
people building from CVS and, of necessity, the bar is set slightly
higher for them. However, I can appreciate the frustration that a sudden
bunch of build failures can induce.

The simplest solution to your problem is to delete the
${prefix}/share/aclocal/gnome2-macros directory and then reinstall the
gnome-common module. This should not harm anything else.


Cheers,
Malcolm

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