[XBoard-devel] 4.6.x build problem

[h . g . muller]

I downloaded the latest v4.6.x commit from Savannah git, unpacked it in a
virgin directory, cd'ed there, and tried to build through

./autogen.sh
./configure
make

But it does not work (see output below).

I have no idea why this problem seems to recur all the time. I don't think
I had it with the previous developer release. But I might not have
downloaded it from git, but could have used the release tar ball in stead.

Is this a problem that is only solved in the actual packaging?

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address@hidden:~/fboard/xboard-2d0fb98e10ba964a18ff63ea67f5abd04c6df585$
./autogen.sh
configure.ac:72: installing `./compile'
configure.ac:80: installing `./config.guess'
configure.ac:80: installing `./config.sub'
configure.ac:34: installing `./missing'
Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
Makefile.am:50: installing `./mdate-sh'
Makefile.am:50: installing `./texinfo.tex'
address@hidden:~/fboard/xboard-2d0fb98e10ba964a18ff63ea67f5abd04c6df585$
./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for remsh... no
checking for rsh... rsh
checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
checking for nroff... nroff -man
checking for awk... /usr/bin/awk
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for library containing opendir... none required
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking stropts.h usability... yes
checking stropts.h presence... yes
checking for stropts.h... yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/systeminfo.h usability... no
checking sys/systeminfo.h presence... no
checking for sys/systeminfo.h... no
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking sys/socket.h usability... yes
checking sys/socket.h presence... yes
checking for sys/socket.h... yes
checking stddef.h usability... yes
checking stddef.h presence... yes
checking for stddef.h... yes
checking for _getpty... no
checking for grantpt... yes
checking for setitimer... yes
checking for usleep... yes
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for random... yes
checking for gethostname... yes
checking for setlocale... yes
checking for getpseudotty in -lseq... no
checking for X... libraries , headers
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
checking X11/Intrinsic.h usability... yes
checking X11/Intrinsic.h presence... yes
checking for X11/Intrinsic.h... yes
checking X11/Xaw/Dialog.h usability... yes
checking X11/Xaw/Dialog.h presence... yes
checking for X11/Xaw/Dialog.h... yes
checking X11/xpm.h usability... yes
checking X11/xpm.h presence... yes
checking for X11/xpm.h... yes
checking for XpmReadFileToPixmap in -lXpm... yes
checking whether ptys or pipes should be used... pipes
checking for xdg-mime... /usr/bin/xdg-mime
checking for xdg-desktop-menu... /usr/bin/xdg-desktop-menu
checking for xdg-icon-resource... /usr/bin/xdg-icon-resource
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating cmail
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing po-directories commands
config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile
config.status: executing test-stamp-h commands
config.status: executing chmod-cmail commands

 Configurations summary:

        prefix:          /usr/local
        datarootdir:     ${prefix}/share
        datadir:         ${datarootdir}   (icons will go in
$datadir/icons/hicolor/...)
                                    (bitmaps will go in
$datadir/games/xboard/...)
        infodir:         ${datarootdir}/info   (info files will go here)
        sysconfdir:      ${prefix}/etc   (xboard.conf will go here)

        update mimedb:   yes

        NLS support:     yes

        Xaw3d:           no

        xpm:             yes
        ptys:            pipes
        zippy:           yes
        sigint:          yes
address@hidden:~/fboard/xboard-2d0fb98e10ba964a18ff63ea67f5abd04c6df585$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/hgm/fboard/xboard-2d0fb98e10ba964a18ff63ea67f5abd04c6df585'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/hgm/fboard/xboard-2d0fb98e10ba964a18ff63ea67f5abd04c6df585/po'
*** error: gettext infrastructure mismatch: using a Makefile.in.in from
gettext version 0.18 but the autoconf macros are from gettext version 0.17
make[2]: *** [check-macro-version] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/hgm/fboard/xboard-2d0fb98e10ba964a18ff63ea67f5abd04c6df585/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/hgm/fboard/xboard-2d0fb98e10ba964a18ff63ea67f5abd04c6df585'
make: *** [all] Error 2
address@hidden:~/fboard/xboard-2d0fb98e10ba964a18ff63ea67f5abd04c6df585$