Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Welcome to the "Tuxmath-devel" mailing list

[arshpreet s. <ar...@gm...>]

> I haven't worked on tuxmath in a while, but I pulled the latest source
> from git and built it from scratch, and everything worked correctly on my
> debian machine.
>

first of all thanks for the reply:-

i am using Centos here is the cat /proc/version output:-

*Linux version 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64 (
moc...@c6...) (gcc version 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat
4.4.6-4) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Dec 19 07:05:20 UTC 2012

*

>
> Regarding the configure output for sdl_image and sdl_mixer, everything is
> OK.  Our configure.ac first checks using pkg_config, then falls back to
> checking with AC_CHECK_LIB if the platform doesn't have a *.pc file for
> that library.  Your output just shows that process taking place.
>
> As for your actual problem that is halting your build:
>
> *
> >>./configure: line 10513: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
> >>./configure: line 10513: `else'
> *
>
> it looks like somehow you are getting a syntactically broken configure
> script generated.
>
> You might try the following:
> 1. run "make distclean" followed by "autoreconf -i" to regenerate the
> configure script, then try building again.  I hope this gets rid of the
> problem.
>
2. If not, you might try building in the default location under /usr/local
> rather than your home directory, assuming you are working on a machine
> where you have access to that location.
>

i have tried both of the above methods but the problem is still same.


>  The build process is supposed to work from any location, but maybe there
> is a bug somewhere preventing that.  Also, I would recommend creating a
> build/ directory under your source directory and building from there, so
> the source directory remains in (nearly) pristine condition as you try to
> get the build to work.  If you do that, the build and test sequence becomes
> (starting from
>
build/):
>

i am so sorry but i did not understand this thing.please elaborate more
with an example.

>
> 3. Make sure you are using the latest git sources (git://
> git.debian.org/tux4kids/tuxmath.git if I remember correctly).  If not, at
> least tell us what tarball you are working from.


i am forking from this repo "git://github.com/tux4kids/tuxmath.git"
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Thanks
Arshpreet singh
http://arshpreetsingh.wordpress.com/