[Gambas-user] Switching to GitLab

[Tobias Boege]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Gianluigi wrote:
> I had previously successfully updated using these drastic commands.
> 
> cd gambasdevel
> sudo make uninstall
> cd
> rm -rf gambasdevel/
> git clone https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas.git gambasdevel
> cd gambasdevel
> ( ./reconf-all && LLVM_CONFIG=llvm-config-3.5 ./configure -C ) >
> ~/Scrivania/R_conf-Gambsdevel.log 2>&1
> ( make && sudo make install ) > ~/Scrivania/Make_Inst-Gambasdevel.log 2>&1
> 
> This time I tried with the git pull command (gian at ...3678...:~gambasdevel$ git pull)
> Since there were variations I gave the usual command:
> ( ./reconf-all && LLVM_CONFIG=llvm-config-3.5 ./configure -C ) >
> ~/Scrivania/R_conf-Gambsdevel.log 2>&1
> 
> But I get this error:
> 
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
> libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
> libtoolize: Remember to add `LT_INIT' to configure.ac.
> libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.ac: adding subdirectory main to autoreconf
> autoreconf: Entering directory `main'
> autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 --install
> autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
> autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
> Makefile.am: error: required file './ChangeLog' not found
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 

You're not reading the commit log, despite using the development version.

40 minutes ago, Benoit deleted the ChangeLog file because he deemed it
useless. So, this explains why the file survived until this day:
it isn't useless.

Regards,
Tobi

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