Re: [Swftools-common] Compiling swftools on debian etch

[Daniel Caillibaud]

Matthias Kramm wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:38:59AM +0200, Daniel Caillibaud wrote:
> > I tried to compile swftools on debian etch (gcc4 - 4.1.2 20061115), 
> > ./configure works fine (just a warning, config.status: WARNING: 
> > Makefile.common.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting) but then make 
> > (GNU Make 3.81) have a lot of errors like
> >
> > # make
> > making all in m4...
> > cd m4;make all
> > /bin/sh: line 0: cd: m4: No such file or directory
>
> Seems swftools was incompletely extracted. Maybe your tar version
> contains a bug, or your disk was full.

I haven't any pb with tar on other tar.gz, disk isn't full...
I have the same pb on another PC under etch.

> Then again, you said you tried different versions (even CVS), so
> it's unlikely the m4 directory is missing in all those versions.

I forgot to tell that I have the m4 directory ;-)

> Which subdirectories does your swftools directory have?

avi2swf
doc
lib
m4
pdf2swf
src
swfs

> What happens if you manually enter  
> 	cd m4
>         make all
> ?

Nothing...

ls -1 swftools-0.8.1/m4
avi2swf.m4
backticks.m4
byteorder.m4
Makefile

and after ./configure I have an empty
m4/test.c

Thx

Daniel