Re: [Celestia-developers] automake/autoconf and KDE.

[Fridger S. <fri...@de...>]

Christophe Teyssier wrote:

>Le Jeudi 23 Septembre 2004 21:22, Fridger Schrempp a =E9crit :
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>>I now cannot compile Celestia-KDE anymore from CVS, since your new code
>>/insists/ that the /very/ latetest version of autoconf =3D2.59 is used.
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>_I_ didn't do it, Pat did!
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Christophe, I am really sorry for "shooting" at you;-). Indeed I seem to=20
be getting over the "autotool" stage, now. But then:

 >checking for makekdewidgets... not found
 >configure: error: The important program makekdewidgets was not found!
 >Please check whether you installed KDE correctly.

I never needed this (makekdewidgets) before. What is that?

Bye Fridger

>See revision 1.37 of configure.in, dated Aug. 30th :
>Numerous (mostly cosmetic) changes:
> - Cleaned up indenting
> - Cleaned up quoting
> - Used consistent bracketing
> - Added spacing between blocks
> - Added requirement of autoconf >=3D 2.59 (should eliminate errors)
> - Cleaned up how configure help is displayed using AC_HELP_STRING
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>I just tried it with autoconf 2.57, changing configure.in to AC_PREREQ(2=
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>and everything went fine without any error of warning message. The upgra=
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>the admin directory probably fixed the problems Pat encountered.
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>Pat, can you confirm it is okay for you too to now downgrade the require=
ment?
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>And Fridger can you confirm it works on SUSE aswell?
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>>Sorry, but I really think that this sort of coding philosophy does not
>>make much sense. You cannot possibly expect that every SuSE user who
>>wants to compile from CVS, uses the very latest SuSE distribution (9.1)=
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>>Im am sure it is analogous with other distributions.
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>The problem is that it's actually different with each distribution.
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>>"SuSE-Linux is installed
>>with just 4 mouse clicks..."
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>How many clicks to uninstall?
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