[Kdenlive-devel] Re: Trying to compile kdenlive

[Jason Wood]

On Monday 06 Jan 2003 9:38 pm, Jason Wood wrote:
> On Monday 06 Jan 2003 9:28 pm, Albert Cervera Areny wrote:
> > Hi
> > I downloaded the source from the cvs but I can't create the configure
> > file. I've tried both bootstrap and the aclocal, autoconf.. but autoconf
> > gives the following error:
> >
> > configure.in:80: error: m4_popdef: undefined macro: AC_Dest
> > autoconf/status.m4:844: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
> > configure.in:80: the top level
> > autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> > make: *** [cvs] Error 1
> >
> > I suppose I need some macros or simply you're using a different autoconf
> > version.. which one should I use, if so?
>
> Which version of auroconf are you using?

Sorry, didn't answer your question :-)

Short answer : autoconf 2.13 works best, but if you can grab a recent version 
of the admin directory and copy it over the top, you'll be able to compile 
with >= 2.54

(As a side note, doing aclocal. autoconf... etc. requires the extra command 
"perl admin/am_edit" in order to work properly)

Long answer follows :-)

The admin directory (which handles the bottstrap stuff) included with Kdenlive 
is currently the one from KDE 3.0, which does not seem to work with autoconf 
>= 2.54.

There was discussion on the list as to whether or not to update the admin 
directory to the latest version, which does include support for autoconf >= 
2.54, but drops support for autoconf 2.13 (and requires KDE 3.1 to run as 
well). We decided to keep the old admin directory for the time being until 
shipped distros start to use KDE 3.1 by default.

At least on mandrake, having both versions of autoconf installed confuses the 
admin directory into using the wrong program.

If you want to keep autoconf >= 2.54 on your system, you can grab an 
up-to-date copy of the KDE admin directory, either from KDE cvs (it's in the  
kde-common module), or from any KDE 3.1 application that uses it.

Cheers,
Jason

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Jason Wood
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