Re: CVS configure.in is broken

[Patrik Reali]

The problem with --disable-gtk-peer is that it works for the compilation,
but GTK must be installed anyway, otherwise aclocal fails.

In practice, I would have to install GTK-2 just to be able to configure the
package _not_ to use GTK-2.

To avoid this, I used to remove the GTK, GLIB, and LIBART stuff in the
configure.in file (from line 121 to line 148) before aclocal and eventually
configured classpath with --disable-gtk.peer. It's a hack , but it works for
me.

-Patrik


Stephen Crawley wrote:
>
> Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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:=20
> > > aclocal complains about
> > >=20
> > > 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
> > >=20
> > > and it's all down from there ;)
> >
> > Also from the HACKING document:
> >
> >         the following are required.
> >         =20
> >                 - GTK+ 2.x.x
> >                 - libart_lgpl 2.1.0
> >
> > Those packages should provide the missing AM_ macros.
>
> There is an alternative workaround to this.  There is an ugly hack in
> the configure.ac file that allows you configure to Classpath with
> --disable-gtk-peer on a platform that does not have GTK+ 2.x.x.
>
> This workaround allows you to build / use Classpath for non-GUI apps if
> you are stuck with an older Linux distro that only has GTK+ 1.x.x.
> (Retrofitting GTK+ 2.x.x can be really hard because of the number of
> libraries and applications that need to be upgraded.  At least, that
> was what I found with RedHat 7.2.)
>
> -- Steve
>
> P.S.  This should be documented in the HACKING file, since the question
>       seems to come up every few months.
>
>
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