Sugar jhbuild bug

[James Simmons]

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.

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.

James Simmons


Tomeu Vizoso 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
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