[Scribus] Isolating a CVS install

[Craig Bradney]

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 03:42, Tom Jakabfy wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 March 2004 09:20 am, VANEK Petr wrote:
> > > OK, I've been hearing about all the fun of the cvs builds,
> > > but I'm actually
> > > producing a few things using 1.1.5 I'd like to play with the
> > > cvs, but I'm
> > > afraid I will end up with something unworkable for the jobs
> > > I've committed to
> > > do. I don't have the luxury of another machine to play with -
> > > how can I isolate
> > > an installation of cvs versions for 'experimentation'?
> >
> > when you download cvs sources into any directory.
> > you can do there:
> > 1) make -f Makefile.dist
> > 2)./configure
> > --prefix=/home/yourhomedir/place_where_you_want_to_install_cvs_version 3)
> > make
> > 4) make install
> >
> > you can run then
> > /home/yourhomedir/place_where_you_want_to_install_cvs_version/bin/scribus
> >
> > e.g.
> > I've got following situation:
> > gentoo ebuild 1.1.5 installed in /usr
> > daily cvs in /home/subzero/devel/SCRIBUS
> > 1.0.1 in /home/subzero/devel/1scribus
> >
> > petr
> The very first thing causes errors and a message that Autoconf 2.13 should be 
> replaced by Autoconf 2.5 as below.
> 
> However, went I went to remove Autoconf in Mandrake 9.2 it said:
> "-- PLEASE NOTICE ---> this version is meant to coexist with autoconf-2.5x; to 
> that end, the various binaries are actually linked to a script which decides 
> which version to execute. It tries to be clever and will execute 2.5x if 
> `configure.ac' is present, or if `configure.in' contains AC_PREREQ and the 
> value's 3 first letters are stringwise greater than '2.1'. If anything fails, 
> you can manually select 2.13 by providing the environment variable 
> WANT_AUTOCONF_2_1 set to `1' (use WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5 if you want the 2.5x 
> version)."
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> here are the Comments from
> *** YOU'RE USING AUTOCONF 2.13. We suggest updating.
> *** autoconf 2.5x works best for now, we will drop
> *** support for autoconf 2.13 soon.
> *** Creating acinclude.m4
> !!! If you get recursion errors from autoconf, it is advisable to set the
>     environment variable M4 to something including "--nesting-limit=500"
> *** Creating aclocal.m4
> *** Creating configure
> configure.in:49: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
> compiling
> configure.in:123: AC_PROG_CPP was called before AC_PROG_CC
> autoconf: Undefined macros:
> configure.in:157:AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
> configure.in:158:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/Makefile])
> configure.in:159:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/icons/Makefile])
> configure.in:160:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/libabout/Makefile])
> configure.in:161:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/libprefs/Makefile])
> configure.in:162:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/plugins/libchar/Makefile])
> configure.in:163:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/plugins/svgexplugin/Makefile])
> configure.in:164:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/plugins/svgimplugin/Makefile])
> configure.in:165:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/plugins/printpreview/Makefile])
> configure.in:166:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/plugins/scriptplugin/Makefile])
> configure.in:167:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/plugins/scriptplugin/doc/Makefile])
> configure.in:168:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/plugins/scriptplugin/doc/en/Makefile])
> configure.in:169:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/plugins/scriptplugin/samples/Makefile])
> configure.in:170:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/plugins/scriptplugin/scripts/Makefile])
> configure.in:171:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/plugins/Makefile])
> configure.in:172:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/libpostscript/Makefile])
> configure.in:173:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/profiles/Makefile])
> configure.in:174:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/libpdf/Makefile])
> configure.in:175:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/dicts/Makefile])
> configure.in:176:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/qm/Makefile])
> configure.in:177:AC_CONFIG_FILES([scribus/po/Makefile])
> make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tom

To compile Scribus, as indicated, you need
autoconf 2.5+ and automake 1.6+. The error message indicates you need to
do the exports:
export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1
export WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.6

the first has changed in later versions on some distros to be
WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5

Try those and at least that error should disappear if you have those two
versions or higher installed.

Craig
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