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[Ubuntu 14.04] Build failed due to no AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED macro available #26

Closed SETIYOSO closed 7 years ago

SETIYOSO commented 7 years ago

Hi.. I'm trying to build tomboy on my machine : Ubuntu 14.04 x84_84 I cloned the project and ran autogen.sh. Then I found this error

WARNING: I am going to run 'configure' with no arguments. If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the *** './autogen.sh' command line.

Copying file po/Makefile.in.in

Please add the files codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4 progtest.m4 from the /usr/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory or directly to your aclocal.m4 file. You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.

autoreconf: Entering directory .' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS} autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in.'. libtoolize: copying file ./ltmain.sh' libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR,m4'. libtoolize: copying file m4/libtool.m4' libtoolize: copying filem4/ltoptions.m4' libtoolize: copying file m4/ltsugar.m4' libtoolize: copying filem4/ltversion.m4' libtoolize: copying file m4/lt~obsolete.m4' autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing libtomboy/Makefile.am:8: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS') autoreconf: Leaving directory.' checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether UID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes checking whether GID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no ./configure: line 3174: syntax error near unexpected token YELP_HELP_INIT' ./configure: line 3174:AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED(YELP_HELP_INIT)'

Not sure if it's a bug. Can anybody help?

alex-ter commented 7 years ago

Looks like your system is missing yelp-tools package. Check out our wiki page on building on Linux it lists preparational steps there: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tomboy/Developers

SETIYOSO commented 7 years ago

Hi Alex. I already have the required packages installed but I can't get past autogen.sh error message. I did try using another machine with 14.04 64-bit and start over following compilation guide that you provided. I received different error:

aclocal: --install should copy macros in the directory indicated by the aclocal: first -I option, but no -I was supplied.

alex-ter commented 7 years ago

That's strange - I've tested build on 16.04 and I think on 14.04 as well. Could you please post the full log from that second machine?

alex-ter commented 7 years ago

Ok, so I've double-checked it and I actually haven't tested it on that version, only 16.04. The problem there is that the autoconf-archive package version is really old (2013) and AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED macro we use was added in 2014. I'm going to fix this properly, but a bit later - ran out of time today. You can do the following as a workaround:

  1. In your Tomboy git clone create a directory called m4 or just cd to it if it's already created
  2. Download the macro from here and save it as ax_require_defined.m4 file in that directory

After that you'll run into what #9 is about (they apply several distro-specific patches for Tomboy in Debian/Ubuntu). Just apply this change to Tomboy's configure.ac file (they have it as configure.in - older name we had) and run autogen.sh again, it should pass, if not - please post the full log here.

alex-ter commented 7 years ago

I'm preparing fixes for committing for both of these, but there seems to be some further problem with 14.04 (16.04 is ok with just #9 addressed). I'm looking into this.

alex-ter commented 7 years ago

All commits necessary to build on Ubuntu 14 are in the repo now, feel free to give it a try and report back if any problems arise.

Please note that you cannot run make distcheck right after running autogen.sh on Ubuntu 14 due to the fact another package - yelp-tools - is also quite old there and contains a certain bug. You need to run make before running make distcheck for it to work (or get newer yelp-tools). However this specific target is generally useful only for package maintainers, so shouldn't affect you at all, putting it here just to document. I'll also add this to the build-related wiki page.