Re: [Pan-users] Fwd: git version of pan2 failed for compiling.

[Hongyi Zhao]

2016-01-09 16:16 GMT+08:00 Duncan <address@hidden>:
> 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.

>
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Chinese Academy of Sciences
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