Re: Installing from Git repository failed and problems with documentation formats

Hi Laurence,

On Tue, Apr 05 2022, Laurence Finston wrote:

> I thought to try `libtoolize' first and that eliminated the Automake errors regarding the Autoconf macros.
> However, the missing file errors remained:
>
> configure.ac:52: error: required file './config.rpath' not found
> configure.ac:159: error: required file 'intl/Makefile.in' not found
> configure.ac:52: error: required file './ABOUT-NLS' not found

I think the piece you're missing is running autopoint for the i18n
stuff... but you don't need to run all this steps separately:
./autogen.sh should do it for you: have you tried simply running that
script?


> There's no explanation of building the package from scratch with the
> build tools Libtool, Autoconf, etc., in INSTALL or elsewhere in the
> top directory.

Sorry about that: running autogen.sh, if present, is (or was, at least)
such a common practice that nobody had asked in 20 years :)

Please let me know if it helps!

Cheers,
jao