building from a git clone

building from a git clone

[Marco Maggi]

Is  running autogen.sh  the only  thing one  has to  do when
trying a build from  a git cloned repository?  While running
it, I get multiple times the error:

configure.ac:871: warning: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library

and finally the error:

configure.ac:871: warning: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
autoreconf: running: /usr/local/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:898: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

  If I try to run configure I get:

$ ./configure
configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in build-aux "."/build-aux

I am using:

$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1
$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.65
$ libtool --version
libtool (GNU libtool) 2.2.8

and     "git     show"     prints     as     last     commit
a4082ab57e81c1826906c1a8601593e8dea5078c.

TIA
-- 
Marco Maggi

Re: building from a git clone

[Mike Gran]

> From: Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it>
> 
> Is  running > href="http://autogen.sh">autogen.sh  the only  thing one  has 
> to  do whentrying a build from  a git cloned repository?  
> While running it, I get multiple times the error:

> configure.ac:871: 
> warning: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library

Do you have the gettext-devel package installed (or whatever it is 
called in your distro)?

-Mike

Re: building from a git clone

[Marco Maggi]

"Mike Gran" wrote:
>> configure.ac:871: 
>> warning: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
>
> Do  you  have  the  gettext-devel  package  installed  (or
> whatever it is called in your distro)?

Ah, upgrading from gettext version 0.17 installed under /usr
to  version 0.18.1.1  installed under  /usr/local  fixed it.
For  some  reason  it  seems  the  "gettext.m4"  file,  with
AM_GNU_GETTEXT       defined        in       it,       under
/usr/shared/aclocal/gettext.m4  was not  found by  the other
tools installed under /usr/local.

Thanks.
-- 
Marco Maggi

Re: building from a git clone

[Neil Jerram]

Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it> writes:

> Is  running autogen.sh  the only  thing one  has to  do when
> trying a build from  a git cloned repository?

Yes.  ./autogen.sh, then ./configure, then make.

>  While running
> it, I get multiple times the error:
>
> configure.ac:871: warning: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library

I've been seeing that for ages.  AFAIK it doesn't cause any actual
problem.