Re: [Planner Dev] Planner and autoconf?

[Emiel van de Laar <emiel il fontys nl>]

On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 17:54, Xavier Ordoquy wrote:
> > Thank you for trying Richard and Alvaro. I'm now convinced the problem
> > must be on my end and not the planner source tree.
> 
> I also use sid and I experienced a lot of troubles with the fact the
> debian can have a lot of packages like autotools and co installed for
> which it is hard to point who's package is guilty. Sometime it comes
> from the fact that too much of them are installed (I remember some time
> ago, automake 1.4 was the default one and some gnome packages failed to
> find 1.6 although it was installed, removing 1.4 fixed the trouble as
> there were no more automake executable by default but automake-1.6 ...).

Yes, this can be quite useful at times. However Debian has a nice
utility to control which version is the default. Take a look at
update-alternatives, like such:

chyrellos:/# update-alternatives --config automake

There are 2 alternatives which provide `automake'.

  Selection    Alternative
-----------------------------------------------
*+    1        /usr/bin/automake-1.4
      2        /usr/bin/automake-1.7

Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 

I did play around with this; trying different versions, but it didn't
help me at the time. I have now reinstalled and all is wel. I can build
planner again!

> > I've installed lots of development stuff with no success. Perhaps my
> > system is just broken. I have been installing some Gnome related
> > packages out of experimental; couldn't wait till 2.6. ;) Seeing that it
> > is now in unstable; I'm going to reinstall my system and see if it
> > helps. This isn't the first time I've had trouble building some
> > software.
> 
> If you want I can also send you my package list. Planner compiles fine
> here.
> 
> > Perhaps someone could answer me this. Is the problem related to
> > autoconf? Do some development packages provide extra macros which
> > autoconf picks up? I'm still learning the autotools.
> 
> To some point, one is always learning automake and co :)
> automake and aclocal are somtime hard to configure and keep running.

Thanks again.

Cheers,

Emiel
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Emiel van de Laar <emiel il fontys nl>