Re: gnome cvs compiling

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Tri <merlintm@atlnet.com> writes:

> I've been able to compile gnome cvs for months now, all of a sudden all
> the compiles from cvs are failing due to this problem in the
> ./autogen.sh stage of compiling. This problem does not occur in the
> source tarballs.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> sh-2.01$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt --with-gtk-prefix=/opt
> configure.in:42: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow
> cross compiling
> ./configure: ./config.log: Permission denied
> 
> Now type 'make' to compile themes
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> 
> I don't run as root but, shouldn't need to because I checkout the module
> as a normal user and the checkout the directory is in my home directory.
> So I thought the there was something wrong with the configuring process
> so I took a look at config.log. Using vi I was able to open it as a
> normal user. I found some interesting things.

This is not a problem of not being root, it's more likely that your config.log
isn't writable for you. Did you try to delete it, it should then be created
writable.

>  It seems that it can't find the -ldir when it's trying to compile
> conftest.c. I have had this identical problem with the cvs imlib and the
> cvs gtk-engines, but no problem with the same packages as tarballs.
> Ideas?

Not finding -ldir should be quite normal under Linux.
Martin

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