Re: [Opensync-users] Compile failure for fresh svn update for Ubuntu Breezy

[Armin B. <arm...@de...>]

ach...@mn... wrote:
> Hi,  
> I checked out the current subversion versions of opensync and the irmc and 
> kdepim plugins. But when I call autreconfig to get the configure scripts and 
> all other stuff created, I get some problems about unknown macros:  
> ##################################  
> configure.in:19: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC  
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.  
>       See the Autoconf documentation.  
> configure.in:20: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL  
> autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1  
> ##################################  
>   
> My versions are:  
> + autoreconf --version  
>    ==> autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59  
> + autoconf --version  
>    ==> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59  
> + automake --version  
>    ==> automake (GNU automake) 1.9.5  
>   
> So this setup should be rather new.  
> When I try to compile the 0.18 source tar files, I can run  
> directly ./configure and everything compiles fine.  
>   
> But now I'd like to use the current SVN version of Kitchenync with opensync  
> integration. I found a very fine compile instruction here:  
> http://www.opensync.org/wiki/kitchensync  
>   
> But here the compile doesn't work due to some used opensync functions that  
> were only defined for current subversion version of opensync and not in 0.18  
> (its the function osync_member_set_name ).  
>   
> Thus I'd like to get the current subversion REPO version to compile at my box.  
>   
> I think, that simply adding the proposed m4_pattern_allow somewhere does not  
> really solve the root of the problem. I googled for some time - but didn't  
> find any helping guide.  

My guess from the error message above is that the libtools are simply
not installed on your machine. Please take a look if you have the
package "libtool" installed.

>  
> ## 
> Another request: 
> Are there some instructions on the prerequisites for compile? 
> I think I'm not a newbie in Linux and SW development - but it took me quite a 
> long time to get all needed packages installed. So it would be very fine, when 
> the developers could make a small list of all neded "-dev" packages. I think 
> the names for most distribs should be comparable enough so that a user can 
> find and install those packages in advance in one run. 
>  

didnt the configure script tell you which package it was missing?
Normally it issues an error message if it doesnt find a package.

Best Regards,
Armin Bauer

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> Thanks for any help,  
> Achim  
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