[Orbit-python-list] Does not compile from CVS / Debian package?

[Roland M. <ma...@ec...>]

  Hi there,

  I got the latest version from the Sourceforge CVS server, and I'm
wondering how to make it compile.

  OK, so the INSTALL file says to run ./configure.  This script does
not exist.  But the INSTALL file also says that this script can be
generated with autoconf.  Right, so I run autoconf, it creates the
./configure script.  Here's the output of the script (in a freshly
checked-out tree):

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| roland@minimir:~/perso/src/orbit-python$ autoconf 
| roland@minimir:~/perso/src/orbit-python$ ./configure 
| creating cache ./config.cache
| ./configure: line 524: syntax error near unexpected token `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(orbit-python,0.1.3)'
| ./configure: line 524: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(orbit-python,0.1.3)'
| roland@minimir:~/perso/src/orbit-python$
\---- CUT ----- 

  Hm.  OK, I'll try something else.  There's a ./autogen.sh script.
Doesn't work either.  Output from a freshly checked-out tree:

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| roland@minimir:~/perso/src/orbit-python$ ./autogen.sh 
| 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.
| processing .
| You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.
| aclocal: configure.in: 7: macro `AM_INIT_PYEXEC_MOD' not found in library
| aclocal: configure.in: 8: macro `AM_PATH_PYTHON' not found in library
| automake: configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
| automake: configure.in: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
| automake: configure.in: installing `./missing'
| src/Makefile.am:4: invalid variable `pyexec_PROGRAMS'
| src/Makefile.am:14: invalid unused variable name: `CORBAmodule__SO__LDADD'
| src/Makefile.am:6: invalid unused variable name: `CORBAmodule__SO__SOURCES'
| Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
| creating cache ./config.cache
| ./configure: line 524: syntax error near unexpected token `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(orbit-python,0.1.3)'
| ./configure: line 524: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(orbit-python,0.1.3)'
| 
| Now type 'make' to compile orbit-python.
| roland@minimir:~/perso/src/orbit-python$ make
| make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
| roland@minimir:~/perso/src/orbit-python$
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  So, it seems to me that either 1. there's something weird in my
Debian system (which I find rather unlikely) or 2. there's a bug or an
error in the files in CVS.  Unfortunately I don't know
autoconf/automake, so I cannot decide which is right.

  Has anyone experienced anything like that?

  Another question: is anyone already working on a Debian packaging of
Orbit-Python?  That's something I'm willing to do, but obviously only
if I can get it to compile.

Roland.
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Roland Mas

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