On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sorry, what I meant is that, ideally, we would be testing Write in >> joyride with the 2.6.4 version. As we don't have that version in >> joyride yet, I think the closest we can do is testing Abiword 2.6.4. > >> Thanks, >> >> Tomeu > > It appears that the 2.6.4 sources aren't configured to build correctly > on Ubuntu using configure and GNU make. > > ./configure reports > > configure: error: No package 'glib-2.0' found > > (The correct name on Ubuntu is libglib2.0-0)
No, I see that it is the lack of -dev packages. I am now installing them one or two at a time. %-[ > Then make says: > > Building AbiSuite with [ABI_ROOT=/home/mokurai/tmp/abiword/abiword-2.6.4] > make ABI_ROOT=/home/mokurai/tmp/abiword/abiword-2.6.4 -C src > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mokurai/tmp/abiword/abiword-2.6.4/src' > > I can't seem to figure out which platform you are using. > > You should probably try using the autoconfiscated build system (rather > than this, the deprecated and unsupported diving make system) by running > configure (creating it with autogen.sh if need be) and using GNU Make. > Using configure is a requirement for all known platforms that > aren't some form > of Windows, QNX Neutrino, or MacOS X. > > exit 1 > make[1]: *** [fake-target] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mokurai/tmp/abiword/abiword-2.6.4/src' > make: *** [compile] Error 2 > > > Does anybody have a workaround? Would someone like to fix configure to > work on Ubuntu? Do the makefiles need any change? > > So far I have the old version of Write that Ubuntu offers accepting > and displaying Cyrillic and Greek correctly. I'll wait until I have > something up-to-date to test before proceeding to the other 30+ > possibilities. > > Kim, should we create a process for globalization QA? We need testing > for Amharic, Arabic, Khmer, > > -- > Edward Cherlin > End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business > http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar