2016-01-09 16:16 GMT+08:00 Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>: > Hongyi Zhao posted on Fri, 08 Jan 2016 11:07:17 +0800 as excerpted: > >> I use the following commands to obtain the latest git version of pan2: >> >> $ git reset --hard HEAD is now at cfb8faf Updated Serbian translation >> $ git clean -xdf Removing autom4te.cache/ >> $ git pull Already up-to-date. >> >> Then I try to compiling it: >> >> $ ./autogen.sh /usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh >> checking for automake >= 1.11.2... >> testing automake... found 1.15 >> checking for autoreconf >= 2.53... >> testing autoreconf... found 2.69 >> checking for intltool >= 0.25... >> testing intltoolize... found 0.50.2 >> checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0... >> testing pkg-config... found 0.29 >> Checking for required M4 macros... >> intltool.m4 not found >> ***Error***: some autoconf macros required to build Pan >> were not found in your aclocal path, or some forbidden macros were >> found. Perhaps you need to adjust your ACLOCAL_PATH? >> >> >> As you can see, I meed the errors as above. But in fact I've intltool >> package installed on my Debian Jessie box: >> >> $ dpkg --get-selections |grep intltool >> intltool install >> intltool-debian install >> >> Any hints on my issue? > > I'm not on debian, but here's a general explanation of the usual problem > building on binary-based distros, what to do about it, and further down, > a list of the files in my intltool package here on gentoo (which is build- > from-source using generally distro-provided build-scripts called ebuilds), > which you can compare against yours to see if something's missing. I'm > not a dev, so chances are I won't be able to help you too much beyond > that, if it doesn't solve your problem. > > As you may already know, binary-based distros such as debian commonly > split packages such as libraries in half, the half containing the pre- > built binaries, usually simply named the same as the package itself, and > a -dev or -devel half, containing the header files, pkg-config files, and > other files generally not needed to load the binaries in executables, but > rather, needed at build-time, for other packages to build against that > library. > > FWIW, a quick way to ensure /most/ of what you need is installed, at > least in most cases, is to attempt to rebuild the existing package that > your distro normally ships. That will normally pull in the required > build-time deps, which will then be there when you build the git version > as well. > > Google says the appropriate invocation on debian should be... > > apt-get build-dep pan > > The caveat, of course, is that the git version is newer (and on a distro > and version such as debian-stable that lags upstream often by years, or > worse yet, old enterprise versions that can lag upstream by a decade, > perhaps /much/ newer), and may in turn require newer versions of whatever > deps than rebuilding the distro-shipped version does. Sometimes the > required deps may be newer than what the build of the old version pulled > in, so you have to update those packages too. > > FWIW, here's the files installed by my intltool package, on gentoo, which > doesn't split packages like that because most gentoo users build from > sources and thus need the build-time stuff too, so splitting would only > be an unnecessary headache for pretty much everyone, maintainers and > users alike. (FWIW, the upstream version is 0.51.0, the -r1 indicates a > further gentoo bump after release of the original version on gentoo.) > > $ equery files intltool > > * Contents of dev-util/intltool-0.51.0-r1: > /usr > /usr/bin > /usr/bin/intltool-extract > /usr/bin/intltool-merge > /usr/bin/intltool-prepare > /usr/bin/intltool-update > /usr/bin/intltoolize > /usr/share > /usr/share/aclocal > /usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4 > /usr/share/doc > /usr/share/doc/intltool-0.51.0-r1 > /usr/share/doc/intltool-0.51.0-r1/AUTHORS.bz2 > /usr/share/doc/intltool-0.51.0-r1/ChangeLog.bz2 > /usr/share/doc/intltool-0.51.0-r1/I18N-HOWTO.bz2 > /usr/share/doc/intltool-0.51.0-r1/NEWS.bz2 > /usr/share/doc/intltool-0.51.0-r1/README.bz2 > /usr/share/doc/intltool-0.51.0-r1/TODO.bz2 > /usr/share/intltool > /usr/share/intltool/Makefile.in.in > /usr/share/man > /usr/share/man/man8 > /usr/share/man/man8/intltool-extract.8.bz2 > /usr/share/man/man8/intltool-merge.8.bz2 > /usr/share/man/man8/intltool-prepare.8.bz2 > /usr/share/man/man8/intltool-update.8.bz2 > /usr/share/man/man8/intltoolize.8.bz2 > > Of course you don't absolutely need the /usr/share/doc and /usr/share/man > stuff, but you definitely want /usr/bin/intltool* and > /usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4. The latter, of course, is what autogen.sh > is saying it can't find.
Thanks a lot, I finally figured out the issue is caused by the autotools chains -- which are more latest versions compiled by myself. If I use the default versions of autotools chains, it will be OK. Thanks again. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > > > _______________________________________________ > Pan-users mailing list > Pan-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users -- Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.z...@gmail.com> Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493 _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
