[Geany-devel] Building Geany from SVN

[Krasimir Angelov]

After I installed intltool, the ./autogen.sh script worked but during
the configuration I got this error:

configure.ac:28: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_INTLTOOL
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

Despite this the execution continued and completed successfully.
However when I run make it fails with the error:

Makefile:796: *** missing separator.  Stop.

This is caused by this line in the Makefile:

@INTLTOOL_DESKTOP_RULE@

Which looks like unexpanded macro. If I remove the this line manually
then Geany is built successfully. There is an error for building the
.po files but the Geany executable is compiled and it is usable.
Unfortunately it works but it doesn't show any syntax coloring. My
feeling is that it just cannot find some configuration files because
for instance the word completion and the code folding works fine.

My question is what might be missing for the correct setup of intltool
and how to get the syntactic coloring to work correctly.

Best Regards,
  Krasimir



2010/7/30 Eugene Arshinov <earshinov at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:47:52 +0100%
> Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:02:19 +0400
>> Eugene Arshinov <earshinov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > I want to build Geany from the sources in SVN. Since the configure
>> > > script is not included in the repository I had to use automake to
>> > > generate it. I tried the following:
>> > >
>> > > ./aclocal
>> > > ./automake --add-missing
>> > >
>> > > Unfortunately this failed with:
>> > >
>> > > configure.ac:9: required file `config.h.in' not found
>> > > configure.ac:32: required file `./ltmain.sh' not found
>> > >
>> > > Am I missing something?
>> >
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > Try ./autogen.sh.  Strange that it's not mentioned at
>> > <http://www.geany.org/manual/index.html#installation>.
>>
>> Well, the manual is really for normal users, not necessarily people
>> building from SVN.
>>
>> We mention ./autogen.sh here:
>> http://www.geany.org/Download/SVN
>
> Ah, okay.
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