Re: [tbox-l] developing applications with glade

[David C. <cl...@au...>]

I'm not sure I can answer this, but maybe I can start you in the right
direction.

You are running "./autogen.sh", but in what directory are you in?
That is, there must be a specific package and version that you have
downloaded, in which you are running the autogen.sh command... presumably
some version of glade, or perhaps some other gnome package?

Your error ends with:
> autom4te: cannot remove /tmp/am4t5641.1646676: File exists
>  at /usr/local/bin/autom4te line 0

That says that the autom4te command couldn't remove the temporary 
directory that it created for some reason.  Maybe there are some files
created in directory /tmp/am4t5641.1646676 that didn't get cleaned up.
Perhaps if you can see what those files are, it will give some clue
as to what happened.  If that's all it is, it might not actually hinder
you from continuing your build.  "autom4te" is an "m4" command
wrapper that is part of the "autoconf" package, written in perl, and I see
that it creates the temp directory on line 942:
mktmpdir ('am4t');

However, that is line 942 of the /usr/bin/autom4te, which comes in the
AIX Toolbox autoconf-2.58 package.  In your case, your error message says
the error was in "/usr/local/bin/autom4te", so it appears that you have
your own copy of autoconf installed locally in /usr/local/bin.  You
might want to try out the Toolbox version, though it may behave the same;
at least, looking at your copy of autom4te and examining any files in
the temporary directory /tmp/am4t5641.1646676 may offer some clues.



On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:12:41AM +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does somebody have experiences with the development of GNOME programs using
> glade? In my case, ./autogen.sh dies with
> 
>         autom4te: cannot remove /tmp/am4t5641.1646676: File exists
> 
> Output of autogen.sh:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ./autogen.sh
> **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.
> 

..... some output deleted....

> Running automake --gnu  ...
> Running autoconf ...
> autom4te: cannot remove /tmp/am4t5641.1646676: File exists
>  at /usr/local/bin/autom4te line 0
> **Error**: autoconf failed.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Joachim Backes
> 
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