On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:56 PM, James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to set up sugar-jhbuild on my OpenSuse 10.2 computer. When I > was satisfying all the dependencies reported by the "build" option I > noticed one that seemed very odd. It wanted automake 1.7. Open Suse > installs automake 1.9, and I would have thought anything 1.7 or greater > would work. I satisfied all the other dependencies first, hoping this > would go away, but it stayed to the end and "build" would not budge > until I fixed it. I downloaded automake 1.7.9 source and installed it > in /usr/local/bin, and that seemed to be enough to get sugar-jhbuild > working again. Then I got this message: > > configure.ac:8: require Automake 1.9, but have 1.7.9 > autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 > > That's a Catch-22 if I ever saw one. I let the build keep running, > skipping over the modules that won't compile. It's pretty obvious that > I won't have anything workable afterwards, though. I would guess there > are a lot of sugar-jhbuild users on this list, and I'd appreciate any > suggestions. I can easily uninstall automake 1.7.9, the question is > what to do after that.
Hi, just in case it helps somehow in OpenSuse, here in ubuntu gutsy I installed automake 1.7.9 and 1.9 from the standard repos and things work fine. Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel