Re: [RP] ratpoison, patches, and the future

[Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas]

Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> writes:

> On Saturday, 27 Dec 2014 at 22:46, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
>> Happy new year (almost)!
>>
>> TL;DR - I've created an additional public git repository
>> <https://github.com/JeffAbrahamson/ratpoison/> for ratpoison with my
>
> (I'm a little behind in my news reading...)
>
> I thought I'd try out your updates to ratpoison but cannot build the
> system.  I "autoconf" followed by "./configure" and get:
>
> ,----
> | ratpoison $ ./configure 
> | checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> | checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> | checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
> | checking for gawk... gawk
> | checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> | checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
> | checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
> | checking whether to enable debugging... no
> | ./configure: line 2839: syntax error near unexpected token `XFT,'
> | ./configure: line 2839: `        PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XFT, xft,,noop=noop)'
> | ratpoison $ 
> `----
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed most welcome!  I'm on latest ubuntu
> and mostly up to date.

PKG_CHECK_MODULES isn't supposed to appear in the ./configure script.
Did you run ./autogen.sh?  I suggest using at least autoconf-2.69 and
automake-1.11.

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