[Ktechlab-devel] Automake problems

[Jason Lucas]

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 15:27 +0200, Claudiu Covaci wrote:
> >On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:56 +0200, Claudiu Covaci wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> First I'd like to say that I am happy too that KTechLab development
> >> will be continued and I would gladly try to help (I'm an Computer
> >> Science student and I'm usign KTechLab this semester). I would like to
> >> contribute with programming, but I don't know if my skills are good
> >> enough. Else, I'll probably help with documentation.
> P>leased to hear it. Feel free to have a poke around the source code and
> you can also contribute by adding to the wiki
> (http://www.ktechlab.org/wiki)
> >
> > Anyway, here's my problem: I have Kubuntu 7.04 and I downloaded the
> > latest SVN version of KTechLab. When I try to compile and run the
> > program (KDevelop), I get an Automake error: that I am using automake
> > (GNU Automake) 2.61, and the program needs 2.53 or newer. That sounds
> > illogical and I don't know what I can do to fix this. I looked in the
> > repositories for a older version of automake but there's nothing
> > there. Do I need some other dev-packages installed?
> >As far as I'm aware, the latest version of Automake is 1.10 so I
> suspect >that something else is causing
> >the problem. Post the full output of automake & I'll see if I can spot
> >the problem
> >Jason
> 
> Hi,
> 
> actually, the output is not very big ("full compiler ouput" in
> KDevelop selected):
> 
> cd '/home/clau/projects/ktechlab/trunk' && WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" make
> -f Makefile.cvs && mkdir '/home/clau/projects/ktechlab/trunk/debug' &&
> cd '/home/clau/projects/ktechlab/trunk/debug' && CXXFLAGS="-O0 -g3"
> "/home/clau/projects/ktechlab/trunk/configure" --enable-debug=full
> --prefix=/usr --enable-pch=yes && cd
> '/home/clau/projects/ktechlab/trunk/debug/src/core/' &&
> WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" make -k libcore.la
> This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
> This will be deleted before making the distribution
> <br />
> *** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61.
> *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer
> make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> *** Exited with status: 2 ***
> 
Clau,

Try copying the attached cvs.sh to your ktechlab /admin directory. (Make
a back-up copy of the original and make the new file executable). Let me
know if it solves the problem.

Jason
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