Building gnome from CVS

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Juho Vuori wrote:
| Hello,
|
| This is very likely to be a FAQ, but I failed to get much help by
| googling or reading freebsd-gnome faq, so here we go:
|
| I'm trying to build gnome from gnome cvs-tree, but I got stuck quite
| soon. I have gnome 2.8 installed from ports on my machine.
|
| I begin by guilding gnome-common-module. It builds fine.
|
| Next, let's take gtkhtml:
|
| $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local/dev
|
| ...
|
| Checking for required M4 macros...
|   libtool.m4 not found
|   glib-gettext.m4 not found
|   intltool.m4 not found
|   pkg.m4 not found
| Checking for forbidden M4 macros...
| ***Error***: some autoconf macros required to build gtkhtml
|   were not found in your aclocal path, or some forbidden
|   macros were found.  Perhaps you need to adjust your
|   ACLOCAL_FLAGS?
|
| Ok, we can get past most of this by setting
| ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal/", but what is this
| libtool.m4? Where should it be located?
|
| $ locate libtool.m4
| /usr/ports/graphics/dri/work/xc/extras/expat/conftools/libtool.m4
|
/usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server/work/xc/extras/expat/conftools/libtool.m4
| /usr/src/contrib/bind9/lib/bind/libtool.m4
| /usr/src/contrib/bind9/libtool.m4
| /usr/src/contrib/binutils/libtool.m4
| /usr/src/contrib/gdb/libtool.m4
|
| Now, most of these files are radically different, but as I couldn't
| really think of much else, I just used the one
| in /usr/src/contrib/binutils/. I've got libtool installed (both versions
| 1.3 and 1.5).
|
| On we go:
|
| $ ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal/
| -I /usr/src/contrib/binutils/" ./autogen.sh --prefix /usr/local/dev
|
| I'll get loads of warnings like:
| /usr/X11R6/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of
AM_PATH_GTK
|
| And:
|
| ./configure: line 20478: syntax error near unexpected token `yes'
| ./configure: line 20478: `GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS(yes)'
|
| Ok, exactly the line 20478 of ./configure is empty, but this quite
| likely refers to line 20481, which says
|
| GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS(yes)
|
| It looks like a m4-macro that never got expanded.
|
| I'm stuck here. I can just comment the line, and configure passes, but
| make will eventually die this way. (make: don't know how to make
| GNOME_GtkHTML_Editor-3.6.server. Stop)
|
| I don't understand how all those gnu development tools work, so maybe
| I'm just doing something really stupid here. In any case, could someone
| please help me with these?

Short answer is you need to install the devel/gnu-* ports (i.e.
gnu-autoconf, gnu-automake, and gnu-libtool).  The long answer is you
need those ports, and some additional environment variables.  Michael
Johnson might be able to help you more quickly as he has been doing work
on this recently.  I won't be able to provide a longer answer at the moment.

Joe

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| Juho Vuori
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