[Kommander-devel] Re: kommander-devel

[Dan Cherry]

On Friday 08 February 2008 8:03:36 pm you wrote:
> On Friday 08 February 2008 11:55:19 am Dan Cherry wrote:
> > ./admin/cvs.sh: 651: --version: not found
> > *** AUTOCONF NOT FOUND!.
> > *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer
> > make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> >
> > (I have autoconf 2.61 installed, and accessible from a terminal, and cvs
> > 1.12.13 also installed and accessible from a terminal)
>
> Any update? 
I cleared out the two directories that were downloaded via kdesvn.

verified that I had the ubuntu dev tools (as well as the X11 dev and kdelibs).

re-running the svn command from a terminal gave a clean download this time 
(for the kdewebdev).  the plug-ins failed once regarding the version, then 
downloaded perfectly when I tried it a second time.  go figure???  No 
complaints about certificates this time.  So my check outs look good.

$make -f Makefile.cvs

still gave the exact same error as above.  I took a look at the script 
in /admin/Makefile.common, which calls cvs.sh.  It says it breaks on the 
version check for autoconf.  
But what was missing was AUTOMAKE not autoconf!  After installing automake, 
the script runs to completion.  You (or someone) may want to take a look at 
the cvs.sh script in the /admin/ directory so the correct error message comes 
out, but it's not a showstopper if ALL of the dev tools are installed.  So 
it's highly unlikely that anyone would ever trip that version check, unless 
they were starting from scratch.

So I'll plod on, and post back after I finish the installation.  (That will be 
a little later this evening).

thanks again for the help and encouragement.

Dan

> We have a long list for getting ready and maybe you could help. 
> You should be able to type
> autoconf --help

> from the same console and it should be seen. If not there is something odd.
> Here is a list of my admin directory, just the files that may be relevent.
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric   1088 Sep 18 11:19 Makefile.common
> -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric  88731 Sep 18 11:19 am_edit
> -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric   3105 Sep 18 11:19 bcheck.pl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric   6875 Sep 18 11:19 config.pl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric  19209 Nov  9 03:08 cvs.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 eric eric   1299 Sep 18 11:19 debianrules
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 eric eric  15936 Sep 18 11:19 depcomp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric    932 Sep 18 11:19 deps.am
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 eric eric   7304 Nov  9 03:08 detect-autoconf.pl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 208017 Sep 18 11:19 libtool.m4.in
> -rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 183687 Sep 18 11:19 ltmain.sh
>
> Assuming you used your standard Kubuntu package system it should have added
> everything you need for developer. If not that would be the place to start.
> You may encounter problems there next anyway and I personally think it's
> ridiculous that in this day of terrabyte drives distros save 100 MB leaving
> off includes. So also make sure you have
> * basic includes
> * X11 includes
> * Qt includes
> * kdelibs
>
> A problem with missing library tools could also cause your error, so if you
> have the developer tools package for Kubuntu installed you should be okay.

Actually, the ubuntu dev tools don't include automake!  Shame on them.



-- 
Dan
Finding a solution to a problem doesn't solve the problem...
Implementing the solution, solves the problem