[Kde-imaging] installing from svn

[Arnd Baecker]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Michael [iso-8859-15] Höchstetter wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 6. Juni 2007 schrieb Angelo Naselli:
> > Alle mercoledì 6 giugno 2007, Michael Höchstetter ha scritto:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > yesterday i tried to compile our svn version of kipi-plugins.
> > >
> > > make -f Makefile.cvs
> > >
> > > and it stopped: it told me that autoconf was missing,
> > > then i installed autoconf, and again it told me that autoconf was
> > > missing.
> >
> > Can you provide the printed out errorr so that we can see where it fails?
> >
> > > BUT it was automake what was missing.
> > >
> > > I think that it is no hard error as  it may only concern developers, but
> > > nevertheless we should correct it.
> >
> > I'm not sure we can i suspect is in admin....
> >
> > Btw we can't compile it anymore, since a Makefile.am into libkipi/pics is
> > missing :)
> >
> > Angelo
>
> All i did:
> make -f Makefile.cvs
> This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
> This will be deleted before making the distribution
>
> ./admin/cvs.sh: 651: --version: not found
> *** AUTOCONF NOT FOUND!.
> *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer
>
> ==> but autoconf is installed, and only automake is missing.

This is indeed annoying
(we went through this already some time ago,
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143200 ...)

It would be great if something would be done about this
(I can't - I don't know anyting about configure&Co....)

Maybe you could file a bug-report so that it is not forgotten...

Thanks, Arnd