[Scribus] It lives!!!!

[Paul]

Hi,

> I had this problem too until I ungraded autoconf to version 2.57. Even after 
> ungrading, "make -f Makefile.dist" still failed with errors like:
> 
> scribus/Makefile.am:167: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS'
> scribus/libabout/Makefile.am:15: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS'
> scribus/libprefs/Makefile.am:15: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS'
> scribus/plugins/libchar/Makefile.am:16: invalid unused variable name: 
> `AM_LDFLAGS'
> 
> Fixed by commenting this line:
> 
> AM_LDFLAGS =  -s $(LIBFREETYPE_LIBS)
> 
> in a whole bunch of Makefile.am's.  After doing this, Scribus compiled fine 
> and runs great.

You shouldn't need to do anything like that - which version of automake
are you running?

TTFN

Paul

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