Problems compiling GPA

[Miguel Coca]

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On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:41:04 +0000, Markus Gerwinski wrote:
> Miguel Coca wrote:
> > Sorry to ask a stupid question, but, are you sure you've got the right
> > sources? :-)
>=20
> I'm quite... uh... (checking again, staring at the monitor for 2:24 minut=
es,
> then banging my head against the next wall) it was GnuPG I tried to build,
> not GPA!!!

Heh :-)

> Alright, downloaded the right one now and upgraded to automake 1.7. Now,
> when I run autogen.sh, I get the output:

Ok, I upgraded to automake 1.7 too and, (suprinsingly) it works for me :-)

>   aclocal: configure.ac: 121: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
>   aclocal: configure.ac: 132: macro `AM_PATH_GTK_2_0' not found in library

Looks like you don't have the proper develoment packages installed. Do you
have gettext and the gtk-devel package for GTK+2 installed?

>   autoheader: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in configure.ac
>   configure.ac: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' must be used
>   automake: no proper implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found,
>   automake: probably because aclocal.m4 is missing...
>   automake: You should run aclocal to create this file, then
>   automake: run automake again.

I think (and hope) all those are caused by aclocal failing above.

> Okay -- what's wrong now? Running aclocal by hand doesn't change anything,
> especially it doesn't create an aclocal.m4. It only gives the error
> message:=20

Try to install both packages I mentioned (gettext and whatever gtk2-dev is
called on Suse), and then we'll see what's the next problem :-)

> Still head-banging

You can stop now :-)

Regards,
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Miguel Coca                                         e970095@zipi.fi.upm.es
PGP Key 0x27FC3CA8                         http://zipi.fi.upm.es/~e970095/

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