TOPSUBDIRS problem

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 24 August 2004 21:52, David Vestal wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 August 2004 02:39 pm, Jason Bainbridge wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:14:41 +0300, ismail donmez <kde at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> Konversation users reporting a weird problem during make -f Makefile.cvs:
> >>
> >> SUBDIRS: variable `TOPSUBDIRS' is used but `TOPSUBDIRS' is undefined
> >>
> >> I can't understand the problem as make -f Makefile.cvs works here. Anyone
> >> has any idea how to fix this?
> >
> > The users probably have a version of autoconf and/or automake that
> > isn't recent enough, they need atleast Automake 1.6.3 or newer  and
> > Autoconf 2.53 or newer as per
> > http://developer.kde.org/build/compile_cvs.html
> 
> I am one of the users getting this error and I am using:
> automake-1.7.6
> autoconf-2.57
> 
> So I don't think that is the problem. If it is of any help, in a new directory 
> I recheckedout kdeextragear-2 from cvs. I removed the dirs that didn't have 
> anything to do with konversation and I did make -f Makefile.cvs and still got 
> the same error.

Using unsermake? Don't use unsermake with kde-extragear2, it's not supported
at the moment (as indicated by kdesdk/scripts/kde-buildrc).
Otherwise, well, try a clean checkout. I had the above problem sometimes but I forgot why.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).