Re: [e-users] 'Makefile.in' missing in /e17/libs/engrave from cvs

[Jackob M. <ya...@ce...>]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:59:49 +0200
Tom <to...@ab...> wrote:

> 
> > Hello. Check if there is a "Makefile.am" in that directory and, if there
> > is, run automake with it. Hope that helps,  not sure oif it will, though :-)
> 
> I had the same problem (cf. this very list, about the 20th of June).
> 
> It turned out to be a problem with that very Makefile.am. Both the one
> in engrave's top level directory, and the one in engrave/src/bin have
> AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS set to 1.5 at the beginning, and my Debian system only
> has 1.4 or 1.6 and above available.
> 
> An easy fix was to just change that line to read 1.6, then point
> Debian's alternative (cf. update-alternatives) for automake to 1.6...
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom

Well, I use(and love) Debian too, (there is very good Debian DR17 compilation from cvs HOWTO on https://vogelweith.homeftp.net/Linux/e17_en.php) and if you use automake1.7(and ONLY 1.7) package, evrything runs well. I think this shoud be noted somewhere...

Offtopic: I played with E17 whole day (.deb packages from unofficial repository didn't work well for me) to make it work and it is finally fully operational... I was supprised how much...in development it is, but even now it is great! I hope it will be completed soon, may are all its developers enlightened !!! :)

Thank all for replies, Yaccobb