Re: [Java-gnome-developer] HTMLView() ?'s

[Skip C. <sco...@gm...>]

Hey there, 

Thank you for your time.  This got me through my autogen.sh blues: 

WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.7 WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1 ./autogen.sh 

I am now making away (with fingers crossed).


scoon


On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:41:08 -0800, Andrew Cowie
<an...@op...> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-31-10 at 20:13 -0500, Skip Coon wrote:
> > -- Running ./autogen.sh in libgtk-java
> ...
> > ./configure: line 2420: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> >
> 
> 1) upgrade to 2.8.x, yo!
> 
> 2) This may be the PKG_CONFIG_PATH problem. It can't find the autoconf
> macros it needs, but doesn't fail gracefully. [Can we fix that, guys?]
> 
> See the attached email (sent to this list like last week) for the
> solution to that problem; hope it helps you.
> 
> AfC
> Vancouver
> 
> P.S. We really need to get these mailing lists out of sourceforge and
> into gnome or somewhere with a proper mailing list archive
> 
> --
> Andrew Frederick Cowie
> 
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> Operations Consultants and Infrastructure Engineers
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Andrew Cowie <an...@op...>
> To: java-gnome-developer <jav...@li...>
> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:20:53 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Java-gnome-developer] configure problem with CVS version.
> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 16:40 +0200, Nicholas Rahn wrote:
> > ./configure: line 2420: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> 
> I ran into this yesterday.
> 
> For some time now, I've had to build java-gnome WITHIN a jhbuild
> environment, that is:
> 
>         $ cd ~/cvs/gnome2/java-gnome/libgtk-java
>         $ jhbuild shell
>         % ./autogen --prefix=/opt/gnome2
> 
> And then it works. I had forgotten this, and yesterday was getting the
> problem you quote.  I think my specific problem is that because I had a
> different prefix, I had to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH set to include the
> alternate prefix's .pc files. ie,
> 
>         export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gnome2/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
> 
> and THEN autogen worked.
> 
> [Notably, one of the other results of all this is that I have to run
> eclipse as
> 
>         $ jhbuild run /opt/eclipse/eclipse
> 
> or, rather, as
> 
>         LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gnome2/lib /opt/eclipse/eclipse
> 
> which is really annoying; but one thing which makes me happy is that I
> figured out the linker syntax
> 
>         -Wl,--rpath=/opt/gnome2/lib
> 
> So when I'm generating binaries with gcj there are no enviornment
> variable issues at all.
> 
> To be honest, this is all a horrid kludge. In part its borne of the fact
> that I have at present a gnome 2.6 installation and haven't gotten
> around to upgrading to gnome 2.8, and needed the gnome 2.8 libraries to
> build java-gnome.]
> 
> AfC
> Toronto
> 
> --
> Andrew Frederick Cowie
> 
> OPERATIONAL DYNAMICS
> Operations Consultants and Infrastructure Engineers
> 
> http://www.operationaldynamics.com/
> 
> 
> 
>