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build from source failed early #40

Closed kgoldman closed 3 years ago

kgoldman commented 4 years ago

RHEL 7.7 x86_64 3.10 kernel

autogen.sh reports

configure.ac:23: warning: macro 'AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library configure.ac:7: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION configure.ac:23: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT

and then configure fails with

./configure: line 2825: syntax error near unexpected token (' ./configure: line 2825: PACKAGE=AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME()'

The lines around this are

Define the identity of the package.

PACKAGE=AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME() VERSION=AC_PACKAGE_VERSION()

rickyrockrat commented 4 years ago

I believe you need to install some development package for gettext at least. I'll have to check on those others.

kgoldman commented 4 years ago

I installed glib2-devel and gtk2-devel and got further. However, there are still several issues:

1 - autogen.sh says

Please create po/Makevars from the template in po/Makevars.template. You can then remove po/Makevars.template.

How should this be done?

Please create po/Makevars from the template in po/Makevars.template. You can then remove po/Makevars.template.

2 - It then says to run aclocal -I m4. If this is correct, perhaps add it to the readme.

It also says "Then run autoconf". Perhaps add this to the readme as well.

3 - It says this. When would the user need to do this?

You might also want to copy the convenience header file gettext.h from the /usr/share/gettext directory into your package. It is a wrapper around that implements the configure --disable-nls option.

4 - Finally, it now fails at:

make[2]: Entering directory /home/kgold/Downloads/parcellite/data' make[2]: *** No rule to make targetparcellite-startup.desktop', needed by `all-am'. Stop.

There is a parcellite-startup.desktop.in

rickyrockrat commented 4 years ago

This should definitely not be this hard. I work with CentOS all the time and it always reminds me it's the Microsoft of Linux. I'll pull down a 7.7 ISO and see what I can find.

rickyrockrat commented 3 years ago

Nothing like a year later coming back to this. I was able to build and install on CentOS 7.x without issues. I do see those errors, but I just ignored them and ran configure. Here are the steps to build parcellite on a fresh install of CentOS7: Clone the repo. Install dependencies: sudo yum install autoconf automake gettext gettext-common-devel intltool gtk2-devel Run the bootstrap ( and ignore the errors): ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make install.

I know you've likely found a solution, but please report back if this doesn't fix the issue with building on CentOS. I need to update that script. It is really, really old.

rickyrockrat commented 2 years ago

See the Readme on master for the Makefile.simple solution.