[Geany] What am I doing wrong building Geany

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Sun Jun 19 10:52:24 UTC 2011


On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:04:23 +0200, Colomban wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Le 19/06/2011 03:50, Sayth Renshaw a écrit :
>> I have tried to build geany on both my linux and Windows Xp boxes.
>> 
>> In both cases I cloned http://git.geany.org/git/geany
>> 
>> I then cd:/ into geany and used ./configure. However I keep receiving
>> this error. I checked the install doc in the downloaded file and it
>> appears its supposed to be a simple ./configure, make, make install
>> process.
>> 
>> Its just not working for me though.
>> 
>> # This is from my mingw shell.
>> 
>> 
>> renshaw at RenshawResidence ~
>> $ cd c:/geany
>> 
>> renshaw at RenshawResidence /c/geany
>> $ ./configure
>> sh: ./configure: No such file or directory
>> 
>> [...]
>
>Short: run ./autogen.sh before, then follow standard instructions.
>
>Long: the procedure described in the README & co is the one for
>*distributed source tarballs*, not those stored in the VCS.  Actually,
>configure is generated from configure.ac by the autogen.sh script, but
>configure is distributed as part of the released source tarballs for
>different reasons (one being it's part of the build system that
>generate that very tarball).
>
>On release tarballs the, you would just have to follow the
>instructions, and run configure && make;  but since configure is
>generated automatically by autogen.sh (actually, autoconf & friends)
>it is not part of the maintained sources, thus not part of the
>repository.
>
>So, the instructions to build from SVN/Git are:

This is also described on the website, see:
http://www.geany.org/Download/SVN


Regards,
Enrico

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