Re: Getting errors with upstream.

[Otavio Salvador]

"Harley D. Eades III" <address@hidden> writes:

>> If you have any problem, please, let us know.
> Well, I have a few questions.  Does one's current
> aclocal version have to be 1.9?  Also, since we are

Not really. We're using 1.9 since is the last and the most updated
version but you can try to build using previous version.

> using subversion why is cvs a depend?  Here is output
> that sparked these questions.
>
> address@hidden:~/parted-upstream/tmp/upstream/trunk$ ./autogen.sh
> ./autogen.sh: line 3: aclocal-1.9: command not found
> autopoint: *** cvs program not found
> autopoint: *** Stop.
> ./autogen.sh: line 8: automake-1.9: command not found
> address@hidden:~/parted-upstream/tmp/upstream/trunk$

,----[ /usr/bin/autopoint ]
| ...
| gettext autopoint program need to use CVS to be able to setup the need
| files. Do a look in the following code:
| 
| # We distribute the many different versions of the files in a CVS repository.
| # This guarantees a good compression rate:
| #
| #   Including version    size in KB of
| #                       "du autopoint-files/archive"
| #      0.10.35                  240
| #      0.10.36                  428
| #      0.10.37                  436
| #      0.10.38                  488
| #      0.10.39                  500
| #      0.10.40                  528
| #      0.11                     720
| #      0.11.1                   740
| #      0.11.2                   748
| #      0.11.3                   804
| #      0.11.4                   864
| #      0.11.5                   880
| #      0.12                    1032
| #      0.12.1                  1032
| #      0.13                    1220
| #      0.13.1                  1236
| #      0.14                    1296
| #      0.14.1                  1300
| #      0.14.2                  1420
| #      0.14.3                  1428
| #      0.14.4                  1464
| #      0.14.5                  1508
| #
| # The requirement that the user must have the CVS program available is not
| # a severe restrictions, because most of the people who use autopoint are
| # users of CVS.
| #
| # Check availability of the CVS program.
| (cvs -v) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || func_fatal_error "cvs program not found"
| ...
`----

So you'll need to have CVS available to build Parted tarball. It won't
be need to just compile Parted since all those files will be available
on final tarball.

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