Re: problem building glib on linux

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 09:59 -0700, Steve Kelem wrote:
> Steve Kelem said the following on 07/11/2005 10:30 PM:
> 
> > I'm trying to compile the latest cvs version of glib on SuSE linux 9.3
> > with pango 1.9.0
> > with cairo & libpixman from the latest cvs.
> 
> 1. There's no "configure".
> 2. If I run autogen.sh, it complains:
> 
> You must have automake 1.7.x installed to compile GLib.
> Install the appropriate package for your distribution,
> or get the source tarball at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/
> 
> % automake --version
> automake (GNU automake) 1.9.5
> Written by Tom Tromey <tromey redhat com>.
> 
> Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> %
> 
> 
> I edited autogen.sh to use automake-1.9, and get the following messages:

Why do you complain then ? It told you it needs automake 1.7.