On Ubuntu 16.04, I ran autoreconf -ivf && ./configure && make && sudo make install
and that happened:
autoreconf: Entering directory
.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal --force autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing autoreconf: Leaving directory
.'
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for intltool >= 0.40.0... 0.51.0 found
checking for intltool-update... /usr/bin/intltool-update
checking for intltool-merge... /usr/bin/intltool-merge
checking for intltool-extract... /usr/bin/intltool-extract
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.22.1
checking for XML::Parser... ok
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GTK... yes
checking for HTML... no
checking for GIO... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking libintl.h usability... yes
checking libintl.h presence... yes
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for ngettext in libc... yes
checking for dgettext in libc... yes
checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
checking for msgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for dcgettext... yes
checking if msgfmt accepts -c... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating data/Makefile
config.status: creating data/icons/Makefile
config.status: creating data/icons/16x16/Makefile
config.status: creating data/icons/24x24/Makefile
config.status: creating data/icons/32x32/Makefile
config.status: creating data/icons/48x48/Makefile
config.status: creating data/icons/96x96/Makefile
config.status: creating data/icons/128x128/Makefile
config.status: creating data/yad.m4
config.status: creating data/yad.spec
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing default-1 commands
config.status: executing po/stamp-it commandsBuild configuratioh:
GTK+ version - gtk2
Path to rgb.txt - /etc/X11/rgb.txt
HTML widget - no
Spell checking - no
GtkSourceView - no
GIO support - yes
Icon browser - nomake all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/src'
CC yad-about.o
CC yad-calendar.o
calendar.c: In function ‘parse_details’:
calendar.c:50:7: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
fgets (buf, 4096, f);
^
CC yad-color.o
CC yad-dnd.o
CC yad-entry.o
CC yad-file.o
CC yad-font.o
CC yad-form.o
CC yad-icons.o
CC yad-list.o
CC yad-multi-progress.o
CC yad-notebook.o
CC yad-notification.o
CC yad-option.o
CC yad-paned.o
CC yad-picture.o
CC yad-print.o
CC yad-progress.o
CC yad-scale.o
CC yad-text.o
CC yad-util.o
util.c: In function ‘get_color’:
util.c:202:36: warning: format ‘%hx’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘guint64 {aka long unsigned int}’ [-Wformat=]
res = g_strdup_printf ("#%s%hx", cs + 1, alpha);
^
util.c:204:36: warning: format ‘%hx’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 8 has type ‘guint64 {aka long unsigned int}’ [-Wformat=]
res = g_strdup_printf ("#%c%c%c%c%c%c%hx", cs[1], cs[2], cs[5], cs[6], cs[9], cs[10], alpha / 256);
^
CC yad-main.o
CCLD yad
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/src'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/po'
MSGFMT de.gmo
MSGFMT fr.gmo
MSGFMT it.gmo
MSGFMT pt_BR.gmo
MSGFMT ru.gmo
MSGFMT sk.gmo
MSGFMT uk.gmo
MSGFMT zh_TW.gmo
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/po'
Making all in data
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data'
Making all in icons
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons'
Making all in 16x16
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/16x16'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/16x16'
Making all in 24x24
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/24x24'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/24x24'
Making all in 32x32
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/32x32'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/32x32'
Making all in 48x48
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/48x48'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/48x48'
Making all in 96x96
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/96x96'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/96x96'
Making all in 128x128
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/128x128'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/128x128'
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons'
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data'
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make[2]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3'
Making install in src
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/src'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/src'
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/bin'
/usr/bin/install -c yad '/usr/local/bin'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
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make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/src'
Making install in po
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/po'
linguas="de fr it pt_BR ru sk uk zh_TW "; \ for lang in $linguas; do \ dir=/usr/local/share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \ /bin/bash /home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/build/install-sh -d $dir; \ if test -r $lang.gmo; then \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $lang.gmo $dir/yad.mo; \ echo "installing $lang.gmo as $dir/yad.mo"; \ else \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$lang.gmo $dir/yad.mo; \ echo "installing ./$lang.gmo as" \ "$dir/yad.mo"; \ fi; \ if test -r $lang.gmo.m; then \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $lang.gmo.m $dir/yad.mo.m; \ echo "installing $lang.gmo.m as $dir/yad.mo.m"; \ else \ if test -r ./$lang.gmo.m ; then \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$lang.gmo.m \ $dir/yad.mo.m; \ echo "installing ./$lang.gmo.m as" \ "$dir/yad.mo.m"; \ else \ true; \ fi; \ fi; \ done
installing de.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
installing fr.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
installing it.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
installing pt_BR.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
installing ru.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
installing sk.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
installing uk.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
installing zh_TW.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/po'
Making install in data
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data'
Making install in icons
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons'
Making install in 16x16
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/16x16'
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/16x16'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 yad.png '/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/16x16'
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Making install in 24x24
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/24x24'
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/24x24'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 yad.png '/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/24x24'
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Making install in 32x32
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/32x32'
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/32x32'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 yad.png '/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/32x32'
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Making install in 48x48
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/48x48'
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/48x48'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 yad.png '/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/48x48'
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Making install in 96x96
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/96x96'
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/96x96'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 yad.png '/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/96x96'
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Making install in 128x128
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/128x128'
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/128x128'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 yad.png '/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons/128x128'
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make[3]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons'
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
make install-data-hook
make[5]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons'
Updating Gtk icon cache.
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.
make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data/icons'
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make[2]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data'
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3/data'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/aclocal'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 yad.m4 '/usr/local/share/aclocal'
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/man/man1'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 yad.1 '/usr/local/share/man/man1'
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make[1]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/enkouyami/Downloads/yad-0.36.3'
Nevermind; it works fine. It was installed in /usr/local/bin which is in my PATH, but I had to start a new terminal instance for yad to be recognized.