Re: ORBit compilation: unexpected token(s)

[Evan DiBiase <evand reload chelle net>]

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, dsb3 wrote:

> 
> I'm having serious trouble getting ORBit to compile.  I thought it was a
> mismatch of packages on my beaten around Redhat 5.0 so spent a week
> fighting with it before spending the $ for 5.2.  I have a slightly
> different but awfully similar problem now.
> 
> glib, gtk+, imlib, ORBit taken from CVS as of earlier tonight (jan 08th);
> all compile fine except for ORBit and for some warnings.
> 
> When running:
> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnome --with-gtk-prefix=/opt/gnome
> I get the following at the end of the screenful of information:
> 
> -------
> configure.in:203: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow
> cross compiling
> processing libIDL
> You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to
> `aclocal.m4'.
> aclocal: configure.in: 33: macro `AM_PATH_GLIB' not found in library
> autoconf: Undefined macros:
> configure.in:12:AC_CPP_ACCEPT_IDL
> configure.in:16:AC_CPP_PIPE_STDIN
> Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/opt/gnome
> --with-gtk-prefix=/opt/gnome
> loading cache ./config.cache
> ./configure: syntax error near unexpected token
> `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'
> ./configure: ./configure: line 573: `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'
> 
> Now type 'make' to compile ORBit.        

Yes... I get this too on gnome-core for sure, didn't test the other
packages (what use are they without GNOME-core?)

> 
> 
> -------------
> 
> Firstly, do I need to worry about the warning telling me to add the
> contents of libtool.m4 to aclocal.m4?  The other packages gave this
> warning and compiled fine.

Yes, enlightenment did this.

-Evan

> 
> Secondly, do I have a mismatch with some of the earlier gnome packages
> that redhat decides to install for it's control-panel and such like.  I
> started to clean them all out but it affected too many packages so I
> decided to let them be for now.
> 
> 
> I've tried doing:
> export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal"
> but this only changes the error to one that reads:
> .... unexpected token 'AM_PATH_GLIB .....
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> thanks,
> -dave
> 
> 
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