[Panel-devel] cannot compile KDE4 - automake problem

[Paul Drummond]

Ooops, I have fixed it!  The following will only be helpful to (k)ubuntu 
users.

(k)Ubuntu comes with automake 1.4 by default but provides seperate packages 
for automake 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9.

Using Synaptic I installed each version while keeping the original then just 
changed the link to "automake" to switch between versions which didn't work.

I then removes all versions of automake and installed only automake 1.6 (KDE 
requires 1.5 but curiously, it's not available!) and now it works fine.


On Monday 29 August 2005 17:47, Paul Drummond wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am trying to compile KDE4 using the instructions posted not so long ago:
>
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/panel-devel/2005-July/000354.html
>
> but I cannot compile kdelibs.  The command "unsermake -f Makefile.cvs"
> fails as follows:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> /home/kdev/src/kde/unsermake/unsermake -f admin/Makefile.common cvs
> *** YOU'RE USING UNSERMAKE 0.4.
> *** Creating acinclude.m4
> *** Creating list of subdirectories
> *** Creating Makefile.am
> *** Creating configure.files
> *** Creating configure.in
> *** Creating aclocal.m4
> *** Creating configure
> configure:33291: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CPPFLAGS
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> Error creating cvs. Exit status 1.
> Error creating all. Exit status 1.
> kdev at fred:~/src/kde/kdelibs$
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> The author of the instructions states he had the same problem and fixed it
> by updating automake.  I too am using Ubuntu (which I changed to kubuntu)
> and have used synaptic to install later versions of automake (1.6 to 1.9)
> but none of these fix the problem.
>
> Can anyone help?
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