Re: CVS compilation difficulty

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 02:13:07PM -0800, Daniel E WILLIAMS wrote:
>      Hello, again.  I'm trying to compile the CVS repository code and have
>      not had any success cracking the following error when running
>      configure:
>       
>      ./configure: line 13333: syntax error near unexpected token `GTK,'
>      ./configure: line 13333: `  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6.0)'
>       
>       
>      The offending region in the configure script is:
>      
>      if test x"$with_gui" != x"no" ; then
>       PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6.0)
>       PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GLADE, libglade-2.0)
>      fi
>      
>       
>      Any ideas?  I'm using cygwin, in case that information helps.
>
> This suggests that you don't have the pkg.m4 module.  However, if
> you're not interested in building the GUI, then you can run configure
> using "./configure --without-gui" and it should work just fine.

Well, unfortunately, if you don't have pkg.m4 when you run
autoconf, the above calls make it literally into the generated
configure script, and Bash will then reject them even with
--without-gui.  So pkg-config is a prereq for building from CVS,
even if you don't want GUI support.
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Ben Pfaff 
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