[Gambas-user] Gambas 3 RC1 pre-release source package

[Matti]

Am 20.03.2011 18:05, schrieb Benoît Minisini:

>>> 2) Can you compare the contents of the m4 directory between before
>>> running "./reconf-all" (just after the source package has been
>>> extracted), and just after?
>>
>> The only change: a file "argz.m4" is added. See before/after screenshots.
>> I also append the output of ./reconf-all, so you can look if something went
>> wrong there.
> 
> But did you compare the *contents* of the files? Did they change?

As the timestamps didn't change, I assumed that the contents didn't change.
Wrong idea?

> 
>>
>>> 3) Can you tell me if you find on your system the libtool macro files
>>> having the same name as the one located in the m4 directory?
>>
>> Yes, they are all there, same names but older dates. Except for the
>> "gb_cflags..." file.
> 
> Yes, but where are they? Can you compare these files with the contents of m4 
> directory? Normally, during the ./reconf-all, the GNU tools must copy the 
> contents of... Oops, wait a minute... I think that the copy is done only if 
> they are *newer*. Or you have a libtool version *older* than the Ubuntu one.
> 
> So: can you try to remove the libtool macro files from all m4 directories? 
> Those that do not begin with "gb". Then do a ./reconf-all, and see if things 
> get better.
> 
> If things get better, I will remove these files from the source archive 
> definitively.

I removed all those files, and things definitely got better. Now, during
./reconf-all, the libtool macro files are copied from my system to the m4
directories.

So, I think removing these files would be better.

I still get (another) error in 'make', but maybe I deleted something that
shouldn't be deleted. I'm waiting for the next round...