Rohit Hooda wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Joel Granados wrote: >> > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 07:14:30PM +0530, rohit hooda wrote: >> >> I have checked out a the parted sources and was trying to build them. >> >> When I try to run ./bootstrap I get the following errors and I am not >> able to proceed. >> ... >> >> I am using FC9 and my system is update with the latest updates. BTW, I >> was able to successfully compile it inside a FC11 Virtual Machine. >> > >> > This ^^^^^^^^^^^ is the culprit of your problem :) You must update to >> > f11 (at least) to get all of the package versions that parted is >> > currently using. And even then I'd think you would be missing stuff >> > like xz. >> > >> > Another thing you could do is to install autotools stuff from f11, while >> > still keeping your f9 installation. >> >> If you want to develop on F9, you should be able to build/install the >> tools from source, using this script: >> >> >> http://et.redhat.com/~meyering/autotools-install<http://et.redhat.com/%7Emeyering/autotools-install> > > Thanks Jim for sharing your script, but this still isn't working for me. > > I took your script, I had to make the following change to make it run fully. > > [rho...@maverick parted]$ diff autotools-install.old autotools-install > 12c12 > < ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.64.tar.gz > --- >> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.64.tar.gz
Thanks! I've made that correction. > After running I tried to run ./bootstrap again. It again failed with the > same errors. > > After that I set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environ variable looking at the end of > your script and also set the PATH variable accordingly, but still no > success. Did you start from a fresh clone or run "git clean -x -d -f" ? _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
