[Geany-devel] Building Geany from SVN

[Lex Trotman]

On 1 August 2010 14:47, Krasimir Angelov <kr.angelov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Hi,

What versions of of autotools and intltool are you using?

Cheers
Lex

>
>
> 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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