Re: autogen woes

To answer my own question:
pkg-config needs to be installed prior to running autogen.sh
This should be mentioned in the build FAQ because the autogen
script doesn't check for its absence.
--
Stewart


On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 10:51 am, Stewart Heitmann wrote:
> After having trouble automaking the multisync Makefiles on FreeBSD
> I thought I'd try it on a Linux box to see if it worked on that.
> Unfortunately no. The configure script complains of a syntax error at
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(PACKAGE, $(pkg_modules))
> Anybody got any ideas about what is wrong here?
> (see below)
>
> [[email protected] multisync]$ ./autogen.sh
>
> **Warning**: I am going to run `configure' with no arguments.
> If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the
> `./autogen.sh' command line.
>
> processing .
> Running aclocal  ...
> Running autoheader...
> Running automake --gnu  ...
> Makefile.am:3: required directory ./src does not exist
> Running autoconf ...
> Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode ...
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for working aclocal... found
> checking for working autoconf... found
> checking for working automake... found
> checking for working autoheader... found
> checking for working makeinfo... found
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
> checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
> checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for bison... bison -y
> checking for Cygwin environment... no
> checking for mingw32 environment... no
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
> checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
> checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
> checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking how to recognise dependant libraries... pass_all
> checking for object suffix... o
> checking for executable suffix... no
> checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
> checking for dlfcn.h... yes
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking for strip... strip
> checking for objdir... .libs
> checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
> checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
> checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
> checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
> checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build static libraries... yes
> checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
> creating libtool
> ./configure: line 5549: syntax error near unexpected token
> `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(PACKAGE,'
> ./configure: line 5549: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(PACKAGE, $pkg_modules)'
>
> The offending code in the configure file is
>         pkg_modules="libgnomeui-2.0 libbonobo-2.0 glib-2.0 gconf-2.0"
>         PKG_CHECK_MODULES(PACKAGE, $(pkg_modules))
>
> I am running Linux 2.6.2 with Autoconf version 2.13 and
> automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p4
>
> Stewart
>
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