Re: [Denemo-devel] Re: Problem installing: mkinstalldirs missing?

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:38 +0200, Mårten Wikström wrote:

I uploaded mkinstalldirs script to cvs today.

Jeremiah


> Oops, forgot to include list on reply.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mårten Wikström <address@hidden>
> Date: 2007-okt-09 15:35
> Subject: Re: [Denemo-devel] Re: Problem installing: mkinstalldirs
> missing?
> To: Richard Shann <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> 2007/10/9, Richard Shann <address@hidden>: 
>         I have just tried to build from CVS (updated with the patches
>         I've been
>         sending) using the procedure listed in the file INSTALL.
>         I noticed that the step ./autogen.sh creates mkinstalldirs as
>         a symbolic
>         link.
> 
> Which automake version are you using? I suspect that different
> versions of automake deals with missing  files differently.
> 
> 
>         Moreover, in the ./configure step the xmltest step no longer
>         fails (cf
>         previous emails in this list). Why this should be I don't know
>         - there
>         is no record of anything relevant being changed. The make
>         still fails in 
>         the po directory, I get
> 
> And you haven't installed any libxml-dev package? My xmltest problems
> went away after installing libxml2-dev IIRC.
>  
> 
>         make[2]: Entering directory
>         `/home/rshann/denemo-cvsBUILT/denemo/po'
>         test ! -f ./denemo.pot || \
>                   test -z "es.gmo fr.gmo sv.gmo it.gmo" || make es.gmo
>         fr.gmo
>         sv.gmo it.gmo
>         make[3]: Entering directory
>         `/home/rshann/denemo-cvsBUILT/denemo/po' 
>         rm -f es.gmo && : -c --statistics -o es.gmo es.po
>         mv: cannot stat `t-es.gmo': No such file or directory
>         make[3]: *** [es.gmo] Error 1
> 
> I haven't seen this error before. 
> 
> 
>         There is a warning in the ./configure log file
>         config.status:875: WARNING:  po/Makefile.in.in seems to ignore
>         the 
>         --datarootdir setting
> 
> But I'm getting this warning, so it has probably nothing to do with
> the above error.
> 
> 
>         which may be relevant?
>         
>         About the sourceforge pages, I couldn't agree more - most
>         references to
>         denemo lead to sourceforge and it appears to be a nearly
>         stalled
>         project. Nearly, but not quite, since some of the development
>         discussion 
>         has taken place there since the move to Savannah, adding to
>         the
>         impression that sourceforge is the active denemo home. 
> 
> Exactly. It was only by luck I happen to discover denemo on savannah. 
> 
> 
>         My account on
>         sourceforge appears to have expired, so I can't do anything
>         about this 
>         (and I have to admit, I have not done any of that work in the
>         past, so I
>         don't know what is involved).
>         Richard
> 
> Ok, but I hopefylly someone on this mailinglist still has access to
> the sourceforge pages and can update them. We'll just have to wait and
> see... 
> 
> /Mårten 
>  
> 
> 
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