Re: [pdf-devel] I'd like to contribute.

[John Young]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:12 PM, John Young <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The GNU PDF project looks very interesting to me and I would like to
> contribute. I've got the source from the bzr repository but I'm having
> trouble configuring it; when I run ./configure I get the following
> message:
>
> The following required libraries are too old:
>
>   libcheck (svn required)
>
> The problem seems to be that the version of libcheck that I have
> doesn't have "srunner_run" but I have the latest version of libcheck
> (0.9.8). I've tried installing libcheck as a SlackBuild package and by
> installing it 'by hand' (./conifugre && make && sudo make install) and
> neither remove the 'too old' message (I made sure I didn't have both
> installed at the same time). Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!
>
> --
> -John Young
>

I figured it out; when it said svn required I thought it was a
dependency for checklib to compile, not to checkout the latest source
from
the svn repository. Sorry about that.

-- 
-John Young