Tomeu,
The Suse repositories don't have RPMs for automake other than 1.9.
However, you have given me an idea to try. I noticed that automake's
executeable has a version number in it, and it is symlinked to
"automake". Maybe if I unlink "automake" in /usr/local/bin but leave
everything else alone I can get the build to work. If it works I'll
update the wiki page for Suse. I wasn't expecting to need two different
versions of automake installed to do the build though. I've compiled a
lot of source for Linux but I never ran into anything like this.
I have another machine running xubuntu, which I believe is based on
"gutsy" and has RPMs for Sugar. That has worked very well for me, but
sharing with the Read activity is broken and since my app is a variant
of Read and needs to do sharing I need a better test environment. I was
hoping to get my openSuse box to be that environment, the build
sugar-jhbuild on xubuntu after removing the sugar RPMs.
James Simmons
Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
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
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