Sugar jhbuild bug

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Hello all,

Same problem in debian, fixed as tomeu stated.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:56 PM, James Simmons
> <jim.simmons at walgreens.com> 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
> _______________________________________________
> Devel mailing list
> Devel at lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
>



-- 
Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
One Laptop Per Child
rafael at laptop.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20080312/b6a5f585/attachment.html>