Re: Getting errors with upstream.

[Harley D. Eades III]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 15:13 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> "Harley D. Eades III" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> If you have any problem, please, let us know.
> > Well, I have a few questions.  Does one's current
> > aclocal version have to be 1.9?  Also, since we are
> 
> Not really. We're using 1.9 since is the last and the most updated
> version but you can try to build using previous version.
> 
> > using subversion why is cvs a depend?  Here is output
> > that sparked these questions.
> >
> > address@hidden:~/parted-upstream/tmp/upstream/trunk$ ./autogen.sh
> > ./autogen.sh: line 3: aclocal-1.9: command not found
> > autopoint: *** cvs program not found
> > autopoint: *** Stop.
> > ./autogen.sh: line 8: automake-1.9: command not found
> > address@hidden:~/parted-upstream/tmp/upstream/trunk$
> 
> ,----[ /usr/bin/autopoint ]
> | ...
> | gettext autopoint program need to use CVS to be able to setup the need
> | files. Do a look in the following code:
> | 
> | # We distribute the many different versions of the files in a CVS 
> repository.
> | # This guarantees a good compression rate:
> | #
> | #   Including version    size in KB of
> | #                       "du autopoint-files/archive"
> | #      0.10.35                  240
> | #      0.10.36                  428
> | #      0.10.37                  436
> | #      0.10.38                  488
> | #      0.10.39                  500
> | #      0.10.40                  528
> | #      0.11                     720
> | #      0.11.1                   740
> | #      0.11.2                   748
> | #      0.11.3                   804
> | #      0.11.4                   864
> | #      0.11.5                   880
> | #      0.12                    1032
> | #      0.12.1                  1032
> | #      0.13                    1220
> | #      0.13.1                  1236
> | #      0.14                    1296
> | #      0.14.1                  1300
> | #      0.14.2                  1420
> | #      0.14.3                  1428
> | #      0.14.4                  1464
> | #      0.14.5                  1508
> | #
> | # The requirement that the user must have the CVS program available is not
> | # a severe restrictions, because most of the people who use autopoint are
> | # users of CVS.
> | #
> | # Check availability of the CVS program.
> | (cvs -v) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || func_fatal_error "cvs program not found"
> | ...
> `----
> 
> So you'll need to have CVS available to build Parted tarball. It won't
> be need to just compile Parted since all those files will be available
> on final tarball.
> 
O Good to know.  I don't really grok the auto* utils much.  
I have everything compiling.  Thanks for the FYI. :)

Harley