Re: 0.6.1.tar.gz problems comiling on OBSD 3.5

[nemir nemiria]

Hi again!


> > Thanks for the reply.    Under OpenBSD autoconf and automake aren't
> > installed by default, so the aclocal command wouldn't work.
>
> That's probably an entry for README. You don't need to run these if you
> use a tarball. All files are already prepared though.

Yes, I remember back when I was isntalling 0.5.4rc2 I was having exactly 
these problems - the tarball had a bug that meant it couldn't compile under 
obsd,  but I could never get the cvs to work.


> The error below are not caused by incorrect version of autoconf. The
> marcros that are missing are provided by automake and libtoo. I have
> libtool 1.5.6 and automake 1.8.4 on my system.

I have installed the packages available to obsd,  but sadly they seem to be 
lagging a ways behind your versions.   I have contacted the guys responsible 
for maintaining the packages, but got no response.   :-(     Were any of the 
things cited in teh error message part of the new bits of libtool?


> Instructions provided by gnokii do not say to just run autoconf. First you
> need to prepare all infrastructure for autoconf. Among other: get macros
> provided by libtool. Please reread INSTALL file. You have all inctructions
> to run given in Quickstart section. Or just use autogen.sh script provided
> by gnokii.


That may be the case,  but I seem to be too dense to figure them out.  Sorry 
for the lenght of thise post,  but I will go into some details as to what I 
have done.

I read the INSTALL file a few times. And even paid more attention to the 
messages that these commands put out.

First thing I did was redownload and untar the tarball.    I edited the file 
as bozo's instructions (and the cvs log) indicated I should and ran the 
installation commands again.  I got the exact same error again. :-(


/root/down/gnokii-0.6.1/gnokii/gnokii.c:5113: undefined reference to 
`textdomain'
/root/down/gnokii-0.6.1/gnokii/gnokii.c:5129: undefined reference to 
`gettext'
/root/down/gnokii-0.6.1/gnokii/gnokii.c:5376: undefined reference to 
`gettext'
/root/down/gnokii-0.6.1/gnokii/gnokii.c:5383: undefined reference to 
`gettext'
../common/.libs/libgnokii.so.2.0: undefined reference to `libintl_relocate'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[1]: *** [gnokii] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/root/down/gnokii-0.6.1/gnokii'
gmake: *** [gnokii] Error 2


So, I switch over to the cvs,  and follow the instructions given on the 
website docs under the cvs button.   After I run gettextize,  it tells me I 
need to get some config files from an ftp site, and also add a bunch of m4 
files to my 'aclocal.m4' file.  Problem is,   I don't know where the heck my 
aclocal.m4 file is.  I run /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb and then search,  
and I find many aclocal.m4 files,   but none that look like *my* aclocal.m4 
file,  if you know what I mean.  In the end I just move on and run the 
aclocal command,   and Lo! there appears an aclocal.m4 file in my gnokii 
directory.  so I cat all those listed files into taht file,  ftp the two 
config files into the directory and run autoconf.   In obsd3.5 this doesn't 
work.  need to run autoconf-2.59,  which does seem to work.  This is further 
than I got earlier.  :-)

I then run autoheader-2.59 and get a couple of warnings:

autoheader-2.59: WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', 
`config.h.bot'
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for 
`config.h.in'
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.
autoheader-2.59:
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template 
without
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: `acconfig.h':
autoheader-2.59:
autoheader-2.59: WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_FUNC_MAIN], 1,
autoheader-2.59:                [Define if a function `main' is needed.])
autoheader-2.59:
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, 
see the
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: documentation.


But I ignore them and sally forth with my ./configure,  where I get some 
errors after not very long:


bollocks:root:~/down/cvsgnokii/gnokii>./configure
checking build system type... i386-unknown-openbsd3.5
checking host system type... i386-unknown-openbsd3.5
checking target system type... i386-unknown-openbsd3.5
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for flex... flex
checking for yywrap in -lfl... yes
checking lex output file root... lex.yy
checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
checking for rm... /bin/rm
checking for find... /usr/bin/find
checking for gmake... gmake
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
/bin/sh: config/ltconfig: No such file or directory
configure: error: libtool configure failed




I am very much afraid that I wil never manage to get a cvs gnokii compiled 
on my obsd system,  and am hopeful that a new tarball will be released in 
the very near future.   Is that at all likely?

Or perhaps you could let me know what brain dead thing I have done wrong to 
make it go?  As you have probably figured out by now,  I don't have a lot of 
experience with m4 stuff.  And the only online info I could find was aimed 
at programmers,  not dumb end users like me.  I hope I have gone to enough 
effort and given enough detail to earn a little more attention.

Warm regards and many thanks for creating such a great application.

Nemir

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