Re: gnome-common CVS can't find automake

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

kevlinux wrote:

> I've been trying for a few days now to compile the latest PAN CVS
> commits.  I get the following, and it was suggested to try this list.
>
> First, proof automake is there:
>
> bash-2.05b$ which automake
> /usr/bin/automake
>
> bash-2.05b$ automake --version
> automake (GNU automake) 1.8.4
> Written by Tom Tromey <tromey redhat com>
>
> Now, the attempt at autogen.sh:
>
> bash-2.05b$ ./autogen.sh
> /usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
> checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
>  testing autoconf2.50... not found.
>  testing autoconf... found 2.59
> checking for automake >= 1.4...
>  testing automake-1.4... not found.
> ***Error***: You must have automake >= 1.4 installed
>  to build Pan.  Download the appropriate package for
>  from your distribution or get the source tarball at
>    http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.4.tar.gz
>
> I've updated PAN CVS, and gnome-common CVS and still get the same
> errors.  Any ideas?
>  
To build Gnome, you should ideally install Automake 1.4-p6, 1.7.9, 1.8.5 
and 1.9.x (in that order, so the /usr/bin/automake symlink points at the 
newest automake).

Since there was such a large difference between automake-1.4 and 1.5, 
gnome-common won't use a modern automake version unless the package 
specifically asks for it (this was done to not break existing packages 
-- ideally all packages should specify their minimum required automake 
version now).  For Automake versions > 1.4, it will fall back to other 
minor version series.

Of course, if you are building Gnome from CVS, I'd recommend you look at 
a tool like jhbuild, which will take care of a lot of the details for 
you (like working out what order to build things in).

James.