Re: [Planner Dev] Success! -> Planner on Darwin/FreeBSD/OSX

[Fred Leason <mr_leason_sem yahoo com>]

Patrick:

A month ago I tried to compile planner on my Mac.  I began to realize 
that I am in way over my head.  Today I tried again and found your 
posting on gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners.  I had already done the cvs 
update from :pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome (the cvs in 
your message did not work for me.)

Apparently I had already updated my libtool and based on your advice, I 
updated gettext.

When I ran autogen.sh I got some warnings like:

Please add the files
  codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
  progtest.m4
from the /sw/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.

And the last error it displayed was:

config.status: error: cannot find input file: tests/Makefile.in

Sure enough, the tests directory is empty.

This makes me think that maybe I was using the wrong CVS.  But this is 
the one that Richard Hult at imendio pointed me to.

In summary, thanks to your posting, I am much farther than I have been. 
 But I don't know what to do next.  I am just beginning to use fink and 
open source code and I definitely don't understand the .m4 files and how 
CVS works and what autogen does.  If I am "almost there," I would ask 
you to help me.  But it may be that there is another 20 hours to get a 
compile.  I just don't know.

Would you be willing to help a fellow Dallas person figure this out.

Fred Leason



P.A.A. wrote:
> Excellent!
>
> Thanks Richard & all at imendio for your help, Planner works wonderfully.
>
> To help others, here's how I installed Planner on my Powerbook G5, 
> OSX/FreeBSD/Darwin (some easy parts, some tricky parts):
>
> 0. Open a new shell/Terminal window. , make sure you are root by typing 
> "sudo -s" and entering your password
> 1.  Download & install the latest libraries (I used Fink -- best way I 
> found on a Mac). This could take a couple of days.
> 2-3.  The latest version of gettext I had to install manually in 
> /usr/local/* for the make to work (for newbies just download it from 
> gnu.org, become root, cd to the gettext directory, type "./configure ; 
> make  ; make install"
> 4.  Now set the environment as follows:
>     type:  setenv PKG_CONFIG_PATH 
> "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pkgconfig" ; setenv ACLOCAL_PATH 
> "/usr/local/share/aclocal:/sw/share/aclocal ; setenv CVSROOT 
> ":pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome" 
>
> 5. type "cd ~ ; cvs login" , press return when asked for a password
> 6. type cvs co planner
> 7. type cd planner
> 9. next tricky part:  try typing "./autogen.sh --enable-python=no" , if 
> it works, great, if you get a libtool requirement not met then you will 
> need to install the latest version of libtool but first make a backup 
> copy of your current /usr/bin/libtool.  After running autogen as above 
> then copy the backup back to /usr/bin/libtool, before typing make, 
> otherwise strange errors happen.
> 10.  type make, if you get an error in the file mrp-parser.c, edit the 
> file and change the gsize above the line on which the error occurs to 
> gint (see Richard's post).
> 11.  type "make ; make install" , should work fine.  make sure X or X11 
> is running and type /usr/local/bin/planner , and let the good work 
> begin  :)
>
>   For those using fink I'm now working to make a planer package for fink 
> (if someone could do it faster than I that would be great :).
>
> Cheers,
> Patrick
>
> Alessandra & Assoc. Intl.
> Dallas * Ft. Worth, Texas  U.S.A.
> (214) 335-0278