[Panel-devel] cannot compile KDE4 - automake problem

[Georges A.K.]

A simpler way is to set the WANT_AUTOMAKE variable. In your case, set it to 
1.5 :
WANT_AUTOMAKE="1.5"

Georges.*
*
On 8/29/05, Paul Drummond <paul.drummond at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 <http://Makefile.am>
> > *** Creating configure.files
> > *** Creating configure.in <http://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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