Re: CVS configure.in is broken

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 04:31, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 19:52, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> > 
> >>apparently the configure.in in CVs is broken. I tried the
> >>aclocal; autoheader; automake; autoconf
> >>routine as recommended in the HACKING document, but it doesn't work: 
> >>aclocal complains about
> >>
> >>aclocal: configure.in: 134: macro `AM_PATH_GTK_2_0' not found in library
> >>aclocal: configure.in: 137: macro `AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0' not found in library
> >>aclocal: configure.in: 140: macro `AM_PATH_LIBART' not found in library
> >>
> >>and it's all down from there ;)
> > 
> > 
> > Also from the HACKING document:
> > 
> >         the following are required.
> >          
> >                 - GTK+ 2.x.x
> >                 - libart_lgpl 2.1.0
> > 
> > Those packages should provide the missing AM_ macros.
> 
> Not in my HACKING document ;) There is says:
> 
> For building the JNI native libraries, the following are required.
> 
>          - GTK+ 2.x.x
>          - libart_lgpl 2.1.0
>          - gdk-pixbuf (Only needed if you want to compile the native 
> library)
> 
> But as I don't want to build the JNI libraries, I figured I wouldn't 
> need it ;)
> 
> Anyway, thanks, I'll fetch them just for the macros. Any idea where the 
> macros hide in those packages?
> 

They're defined in gtk-2.0.m4, glib-2.0.m4 and libart.m4.

> Stupid question no 2: why aren't those macros in the CVS archive? They 
> are not generated files, as far as I can tell. Installing gtk2, glib2 
> and libart just to be able to compile Classpath's java classes with 
> jikes seems like a bit of overkill ;)

Yes, I agree.  We should probably just check the macro files into
Classpath's top-level directory.  That's what we've done with libgcj. 
We should also update the HACKING file to recommend

aclocal -I .

That should solve the problem.

Tom

> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
> 
> 
> 
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