On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:17 PM, James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
In the hope it helps: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar-tomeu$ ls -l /usr/bin/automake* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2007-05-17 21:18 /usr/bin/automake -> /etc/alternatives/automake -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 270996 2006-06-26 13:01 /usr/bin/automake-1.7 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 221996 2006-12-06 16:55 /usr/bin/automake-1.9 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar-tomeu$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/automake lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2007-05-17 21:18 /etc/alternatives/automake -> /usr/bin/automake-1.9 > 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. You may want to run several instances of the sugar emulator in the same machine: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild#Running_multiple_instances Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel