Re: [Java-gnome-developer] configure problem with CVS version.

[Mark H. <mh...@ti...>]

Hi,

This is excellent news that you're getting on so well with java-gnome and liking
it. Please do keep us informed os your progress and if possible add details of
any apps you write to our website .

Quoting Nicholas Rahn <ni...@mn...>:
> 1. I needed to add a '!' on the first line of autogen.sh to complete the
> "#!/bin/bash" line.  Without this, autogen.sh did not run on the command
> line or in jhbuild.  Adding it made the the "illegal variable name"
> error go away.  Once libgtk-java successfully compiled, the other
> modules did not show this problem (when compiled in jhbuild), even
> though they did not have the '!' either.
This is terrible. I guess most ppl use bash and it seems to work, hence it was
not picked up earlier. I'll fix it tonight.

> It is very strange to me that the autogen.sh script would have such a
> "bug" in it.  I'm sure it's not there for a reason (like jhbuild doesn't
> like it or something), but not having autogen.sh be a standard script
> seems problematic to me.
Me too. Unfortunately nobody with any knowledge of autotools has been helping
out with java-gnome. I've been reading a lot of it myself. I think we need to
convert to automake before we can use a standard autogen. This is a wishlist
item, but I don't really have time myself and it would be better done by
somebody who knows what they're doing.

> 2. I needed to set my WANT_AUTOCONF environment variable to "2.5".
> Without this set, autoconf used v2.13 by default and the configure
> script was not properly generated (hence the "unexpected end of file"
> error).
I'll change this in cvs.

> 3. in libgtk-java, in the file org_gnu_gtk_ActionGroup.c, i had to move
> the static function internalHandleActionCallback to just after the
> typedef in order to get it to compile.  perhaps this is an issue with
> newer gccs (i have gcc-3.4.2)?
I've not seen it before, but making the change is easy enough and shouldn't
affect other ppl.

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