[gcompris-devel] The python plugin...

[Bruno Coudoin]

OK, I do my best trying to release your code but I have many trouble
with the autoconf process.
Here is my conf. I have a brain new Mandrake 9.1. I updated to
autoconf-2.54 and automake-1.6.3
Then sh autogen.sh gives me the following error and I am stuck. What can
I do ?

$ sh autogen.sh
Gcompris modified gnome-autogen.sh
checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
  testing autoconf2.50... not found.
  testing autoconf... found.
checking for automake >= 1.6...
  testing automake-1.7... not found.
  testing automake-1.6... found.
checking for libtool >= 1.4.3...
  testing libtoolize... found.
checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
  testing glib-gettextize... found.
checking for intltool >= 0.25...
  testing intltoolize... found.
checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0...
  testing pkg-config... found.
Checking for required M4 macros...
Checking for forbidden M4 macros...
**Warning**: 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 ./configure.in
Running aclocal-1.6...
Running libtoolize...
Running glib-gettextize... Ignore non-fatal messages.
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
 
Please add the files
  codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
  progtest.m4
from the /usr/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.
 
Running intltoolize...
patching file po/Makefile.in.in
Running autoheader...
Can't locate Autom4te/General.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/nfs/users/thunder/cvs/ximian-desktop/autoconf/dest/usr/share/autoconf
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at
/usr//bin/autoheader line 36.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr//bin/autoheader line 36.


Le lun 03/03/2003 à 17:31, Olivier Samyn a écrit :
> Every one makes mistakes !
> The cvs patch I send last week was just an adapted version of the patch
> for gcompris2.3 ... And I only used autoconf and automake on this, not
> the entire autogen process...
> 
> So, I worked a bit on this this week-end and I made many changes that
> will make gcompris use the current cvs version of gnome-common (don't be
> afraid, I made it local to gcompris so no need to install the cvs
> version on your computer) and more recent version of autoconf and
> automake.
> 
> I got all the build process working on my LFS and on a debian
> unstable... so I hope it'll work on your distribution and other
> developper's one...
> 
> I also remove a small bug in one of the python source code :)
> 
> A last, I updated the patch to the today cvs version...
> 
> To reply to your questions, I don't have a gnome cvs account... But I
> prefer you test this entire patch your self before commiting something
> that may break the entire source ... 
> 
> I hope you'll get this working quickly...
> 
> 
> 
> Here's is a copy of the ChangeLog I wrote during this developpement:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Changes summary.
> ----------------
> 
> - Added Python checks/options into configure.in
> 
> - Added Python plugin and dependencies into src/boards/Makefile.am
> 
> - Added a directory to contain python scripts and a Makefile.am:
>     src/boards/python/Makefile.am
> 
> - Added Python board into boards/Makefile.am
> 
> - Links the python library into the gcompris main.
>   Changed src/gcompris/Makefile.am to do this.
> 
> - Added the python plugin files:
>     src/boards/python.c
>     src/boards/py-gcompris-board.c
>     src/boards/py-gcompris-board.h
>     src/boards/py-mod-gcompris.c
>     src/boards/py-mod-gcompris.h
> 
> - Added python test board and its file
>     src/boards/python/pythontest.py
>     boards/pythontest.xml.in
>     boards/boardicons/python.png (! not contained in the .diff file)
> 
> - Changed the autogen and configuration options (see below).
> 
> - Replaced the macros directory by a gnome2-macros comming from the cvs
>   version of the gnome-common package (see below).
> 
> - Removed some autogenerated files:
>   - missing
>   - mkinstalldir
>   - install-sh
>   - acconfig.h
> 
> Autogen and Configuration changes
> ---------------------------------
> 
> I made some changes to the autoconf/automake config files to match a bit
> more the Gnome 2.x platform and to be able to work with the newest
> version of the GNU tools: automake>=1.6, autoconf>=2.53, libtool>=1.4.3
> 
> To get a nice autogen process, I decided to use the gnome-common
> package. But since there's no up-to-date version of this package, I used
> the cvs version (checked out the 2003-03-03). To avoid every developpers
> to checkout this cvs version, I copied the needed scripts and macros
> into the gnome2-macros directory. I also removed the old macros
> directory that's unusefull now.
> 
> Since I made the gnome-common scripts local to gcompris, I needed to
> modify the gnome-autogen.sh script to work from a local context and not
> from a system wide one. I also modified a bit the gcompris's autogen.sh
> script to use this new autogeneration process.
> 
> Also, I made some changes to the configure.in and Makefile.am files:
> - Removed Gnome 1.x macros and call the Gnome 2.x one
> - Many macros uses now pkg-config like libxml.
> - Removed GNOME_PTHREAD... since those options are included in the
>   libgnome config options
> - Added some missing "\" into src/boards/Makefile.am
> - Replaced GNOME_XML_LIB by XML_LIBS
> - Removed acconfig.h since the defines contained here are now generated
> by the AC_DEFINE* autoconf functions.
> - Replaced some -I.. with -I$(top_srcdir)/src to be able to build
> gcompris outside the sources directory.
> 
> Finally, all of this works on my LFS system and on a Debian unstable...
> I hope it will work on other systems.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> See you,
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