Re: CVS compilation difficulty

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:27:24PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      >       
>      >      The offending region in the configure script is:
>      >      
>      >      if test x"$with_gui" != x"no" ; then
>      >       PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6.0)
>      >       PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GLADE, libglade-2.0)
>      >      fi
>      > This suggests that you don't have the pkg.m4 module.  However, if
>      > you're not interested in building the GUI, then you can run configure
>      > using "./configure --without-gui" and it should work just fine.
>      
>      Well, unfortunately, if you don't have pkg.m4 when you run
>      autoconf, the above calls make it literally into the generated
>      configure script, and Bash will then reject them even with
>      --without-gui. 
>
> I didn't think it would.  Since bash is interpreted, if the test
> x"$with_gui" != x"no" fails, then the PKG_CHECK_MODULES lines never
> make it to the interpreter ??

Try it.  Cut and paste this into a shell prompt:
        if false; then
                PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6.0)
        fi
It gives me the error "bash: syntax error near unexpected token `GTK,'"
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