Re: Difficulty rating of compiling Pingus?

[Erik Søe Sørensen]

David Philippi wrote:
> Am Fr, den 09.04.2004 schrieb Erik Søe Sørensen um 1:46:
>
> > Exercise, yes... nice, not really.
> Well, I'd say you've learned some new things by now. ;-)
True.
(And I does not say that that is such a bad thing - it's just that
1. I'd prefer to learn things up front, instead of after-the-fact.
2. It's a bit much to expect from a mere translator. I might as well 
become a developer now :)

> > - On my system, the check for clanJPEG failed when ClanLib 0.6 was 
> > installed in /usr/local . I think the linker tried to use the 0.7 
> > version of ClanLib instead (or maybe the check just doesn't like 
> > /usr/local - I don't know).
>
> The check does like /usr/local and on my system it did work although
> I've got both installed, what version of autoconf, automake do you use?
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
automake (GNU automake) 1.8.3

- But I'd better try to compile it all the Right Way(TM).

> > - Making Pingus use my localization was another problem; I had to add 
> > this symbolic link to make it work:
>
>
> The best way is to add your language to configure.ac
Yes, another thing I learned.

> prior to running
> autogen.sh so that it gets built along with the others. If you then do a
> make install instead of just running pingus from src/, it should be
> found.
The entire directory isn't found.
Actually, "LANG=de_DE pingus" still doesn't work, so something must 
still be fscked in my end...?
(Is there any convenient way to debug gettext issues?)

> > Or is it just me who should learn m4,aclocal,auto{conf,make},gettext to 
> > know better before I can call myself a developer?
>
>  No, you should just use them in the intended way.
Still had to learn those, then. (I suppose the intended way is to run 
autogen.sh, right?)

> > (In that case, which open source projects constitute the Tutorial Island? :)
> Any project with polite developers on the mailing list. ;-)
Right :)
(And perhaps keen-eyed one as well - No one mentioned the right way to 
do it the last time I had compilation trouble.)

/Erik