Re: Fw: [Synfig-user] Cannot Get Synfig to Compile

[Daniel F. <Da...@di...>]

Hi Greg,

> Have you had any responses to your Synfig e-mails?

I don't think that any of my posts were answered--the list doesn't seem 
to be getting the developer's attention. However, posting on the bug 
tracker seems to get some attention.

> I've not attempted compiling Synfig - but I've been on
> this list since Synfig was released.

I'm an early subscriber too. I have had tried building the pieces and 
kept encountering build errors--some having to do with being on a 64-bit 
system, others were pretty much general bugs.

> I assumed you might have seen the following e-mail in the
> mailing list archive (if there is one?).
> There have always been issues with the ETL compile,
> supposedly it will compile despite the warnings/errors?
> Or is your problem specific to your OS/compiler?

The errors I got were fatal--the code just wouldn't build. I'm on a 
Gentoo box so I checked into the ebuilds posted on the wiki and that 
made things easier.

Within the last 12 hours someone answered one of my bug reports and 
fixed a problem with ETL in the SVN repository. Now I've got all the 
pieces working with the latest SVN sources. The program is finally 
launching so I guess it is time to start figuring out how this is 
supposed to work!

By the way, I'm also following a similar program called KToon, 
http://ktoon.toonka.com
and it has been under quite active development--check out their 
documentation on how to build the SVN sources.

--Dan


> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert B Quattlebaum, Jr." 
> <da...@de...>
> To: "Steven Schronk" <st...@sc...>
> Cc: <syn...@li...>
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 6:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Synfig-user] Cannot Get Synfig to Compile
> 
> 
>> On Dec 15, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Steven Schronk wrote:
>>
>>> I downloaded  the source for ETL, and and ran:
>>>
>>> ./configure
>>> make
>>> make install
>>>
>>> they all seem to work fine.  I have read through the output and  
>>> there are
>>> no error messages.
>>>
>>> I have checked and I am using the right compiler.
>>>
>>> Then I move to the synfig-0.61.03 directory and run ./configure
>>>
>>> Then it gets to this part of the configure and quits...
>>>
>>>
>>> checking for ETL... Package ETL was not found in the pkg-config  
>>> search path.
>>> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `ETL.pc'
>>> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>>> No package 'ETL' found
>>> configure: error:  ** You need to install the ETL.
>>>
>>> The web page says to skip this ETL requrement, but I do not know  HOW 
>>> to do
>>> that.
>>
>>
>> No, the web page doesn't say to do that. The web page just said to  
>> ignore any errors/warnings when testing and installing the ETL package.
>>
>> That aside, the error message can be taken at face value. If it can't  
>> find the ETL package description in the pkg-config path, then we need  
>> to add it. (I'm going to assume that you already have pkg-config  
>> installed. It's pretty standard these days)
>>
>> So try this:
>>
>> ./configure PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
>>
>>> Thanks for your help on this.  If I can get it compile, I was  
>>> planning on
>>> makeing an RPM for Mandrake and RedHat and create packages for the  
>>> rest.
>>
>>
>> Let us know how it goes! I'm sure a lot of people would be interested  
>> in an RPM.
>>
>>
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