[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Problem compiling tuxtype.

David Bruce davidstuartbruce at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 14:03:18 UTC 2011


Hi Haris,

If your distro has gettext 0.18 just install it with your package manager.
Otherwise, just build it from source in the default location (i.e. under
/usr/local) and it should work fine without having to pass any nonstandard
locations to the configure script.

David

On Nov 9, 2011 6:14 AM, "Haris Ibrahim K. V." <blucalvin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/11/2011, David Bruce <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Haris,
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Haris Ibrahim K. V.
> > <blucalvin at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Hi David,
> >>
> >> I found some errors while trying to compile tuxtype.
> >>
> >> 1) When I ran autoreconf, it gave the following output:
> >>
> >
> > You should run "autoreconf -i" (shorthand for "autoreconf --install").
 I
> > think the problem is that a lot of these boilerplate files need to be
> > copied in by automake and autoconf, and just running automake by hand
only
> > took care of some of them.  That's why you are still getting the error
> > about the missing po/Makefile.in.in.
> >
> > The latest git checkout of the master branch builds without errors on my
> > machine.  Try this
> > 1.  clone and checkout tuxtype into some location (most likely you have
> > done this already).
> > 2. From the top level tuxtype directory, do:
> >
> > mkdir build
> > cd build
> > autoreconf -i ..
> > ../configure
> > make
> > sudo make install
> > tuxtype -f
>
> I did not install gettext with sudo as I didn't want to confuse apt.
> Instead I had installed it into a manual location at ~/tux4kids/build/
> . So my steps are
>
> mkdir build
> cd build
> autoreconf --prepend-include=~/tux4kids/build/lib/ ..
> ../configure
>
> And then I got the errors that I sent in my last mail about the
> po/Makefile.in.in. However in the above steps, when I type
>
> autoreconf --install --prepend-include=~/tux4kids/build/lib/ ..
>
> I get the error message saying that I need gettext-0.18 or newer.
>
> Would you advice that I install gettext at /usr/local using sudo and
> get started on the code or is there anyway else around the problem
> that I'm having?
>
> >
> > and you should have tuxtype running so you can test it.
> >
> > (it is cleaner to do builds from a separate build directory like this to
> > avoid cluttering the source tree with object files and other generated
> > files).
> >
> > Also, please send questions like this to the dev mailing list so the
> > answers can be googled in the future.
>
> I'm sorry. I'll take care of that from now onwards.
>
> >
> > --
> > David Bruce
> >
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> >
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Haris Ibrahim K. V.
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>
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