automake1.4/1.6.1 more precise

[Joerg Anders]

On 23 Apr 2002, Richard Boulton wrote:

> Of course they work.  There are many people using such releases.

with KDE3 ???

> However, as with all software, there are some bugs (both known and
> unknown), and some incompatibilities with previous versions.  Please
> work with us to help solve the problems.  This means: give us useful
> information.

Ok!
>
> Yes, you can.  It will take more effort on your part, but that's only
> fair given that you're expecting other people to spend a big chunk of
> time fixing the problems.

Ok!
>
>
> Automake 1.6.1 has many bugfixes over 1.6.
>
> Note also that there are some required changes when moving from 1.4 ->
> 1.5 or 1.5 -> 1.6, and also that many undocumented features which worked
> (albeit unreliably) in 1.4 are caught and complained about when used
> with 1.5 and 1.6.
>
>
 Ok! I installed
        autoconf-2.52 automake-1.6.1

With KDE(2/3) comes a command "kapptemplate" which produces  a
Makefile.am in top directory and a subdir "admin" with a further
Makefile.common, which in turn calls aclocal, automake and autoconf.

The same is produced and invoked if you create a new project
using "kdevelop".

        make -f admin/Makefile.common

invokes aclocal, automake and autoconf.

Note! All works with automake-1.4. Therefore I'm convinced you'll
get still a lot of mails from other KDE developers.

I will not post the TGZ to the list. But if you like refer to:

        http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/automakeerror/automakeerror.html

Here you find the TGZ for download.
The first step is:

        make -f admin/Makefile.common


If you now:

        ./configure --prefix=<path_to_kde3> --with-qt-dir=<path_to_qt3>
        make

make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/fs8/home/ja/qttest/noteedit'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/fs8/home/ja/qttest/noteedit/doc'
Making all in .
make[3]: Entering directory `/fs8/home/ja/qttest/noteedit/doc'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/fs8/home/ja/qttest/noteedit/doc'
Making all in noteedit
make[3]: Entering directory `/fs8/home/ja/qttest/noteedit/doc/noteedit'
/opt/kde3/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook
Making all in .
make[4]: Entering directory `/fs8/home/ja/qttest/noteedit/doc/noteedit'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/fs8/home/ja/qttest/noteedit/doc/noteedit'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/fs8/home/ja/qttest/noteedit/doc/noteedit'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/fs8/home/ja/qttest/noteedit/doc'
Making all in noteedit
make[2]: Entering directory `/fs8/home/ja/qttest/noteedit/noteedit'
Makefile:405: .deps/main.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:406: .deps/noteedit.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:407: .deps/noteedit_client.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:408: .deps/noteeditpref.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:409: .deps/noteeditview.Po: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `.deps/noteeditview.Po'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/fs8/home/ja/qttest/noteedit/noteedit'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/fs8/home/ja/qttest/noteedit'
make: *** [all] Error 2


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J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY (address@hidden)