Re: Problems with compiling from cvs...

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Ted Rolle <ted@acacia.datacomm.com> writes:

> I tried this solution... no luck.  Here are the messages:
> 
> [ted@acacia gtk+]$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/gnome
> 
> aclocal: configure.in: 173: macro `AM_PATH_GLIB' not found in library
> configure.in:145: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
> configure.in:146: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
> configure.in:374: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
> configure.in:392: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
> configure.in:406: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
> configure.in:145: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
> configure.in:146: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
> configure.in:374: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
> configure.in:392: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
> configure.in:406: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
> loading cache ./config.cache
> ./configure: syntax error near unexpected token `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE,'
> ./configure: ./configure: line 581: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE, $VERSION, no-define)'
> 
> Now type 'make' to compile Gtk+.

Grab glib from CVS, compile it, install it, make sure that autogen.sh
looks in the place where glib.m4 was installed. (This may require
something like like

export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal/"

(We _really_ need a FAQ entry on this...)

Regards,
                                        Owne