Sugar on Debian: libglade/aclocal

[Edward Cherlin]

On 5/2/07, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 22:09 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> > Here is the error:
>
> Should probably move this to sugar at laptop...

Hardly. They are talking about UI and activity design, not about the
innards of Sugar.

> > cd . && /bin/sh
> > /home/mokurai/dev/sugar-jhbuild/source/libglade/missing --run
> > aclocal-1.10 -I  -I
> > /home/mokurai/dev/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/aclocal
> > aclocal-1.10: unrecognized option
> > `/home/mokurai/dev/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/aclocal'
> > aclocal-1.10: Try `/usr/bin/aclocal-1.10 --help' for more information.
> > make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
> > *** error during stage build of libglade: ########## Error running
> > make   *** [17/56]
> >
> > Here is the relevant part of the help message.
> >
> > /bin/sh /home/mokurai/dev/sugar-jhbuild/source/libglade/missing --run
> > aclocal-1.10 -I /home/mokurai/dev/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/aclocal
> > aclocal-1.10: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required
> >
> >
> > Where was I supposed to get a configure.ac or configure.in? Why didn't
> > I get either if this code works for other people.

Anyway, I got libglade working by forcing a checkout. Now I'm stuck on
dbus, because xmlto doesn't know how to call getopt on Debian. There
appears to be no standard way to do this. Filing bug report with
Debian.

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