On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote: > I'm trying to build Trinity from SVN. I'm still using my old build scripts with automake. As I have not tested my build environment since last autumn, I wanted to make one run to ensure everything still works before trying other things. Basically, start with a known good environment. > > According to recent list conversations, building with automake should still work with distros using older autotools. > > Building tqtinterface failed immediately: > > ============================================ > cp: cannot create regular file `admin/libtool.m4.in': No such file or directory > cp: cannot create regular file `admin/ltmain.sh': No such file or directory > make: admin/Makefile.common: No such file or directory > make: *** No rule to make target `admin/Makefile.common'. Stop. > ============================================ > > There no longer is an svn admin directory in the tqtinterface sources. > > The wiki says "The current SVN tree is being ported to CMake. You cannot build part of the tree with CMake and then start building with autoconf." > > Do I now have to build tqtinterface with cmake? If so, then I according to the wiki I cannot build the remaining packages with autotools. > > I saw nothing obvious in the list archives. I think that just means that you can't build part of TDE using autotools and the other part with cmake (as in, a mixed build). But you should be able to one OR the other, from what I've seen in the mailing list. Considering there were no major changes in tqtinterface between 3.5.12 and the svn version, you may be able to grab the 3.5.12 tarball and use it's admin directory, but I'd suggest waiting for Serghei (spelling?) (the TDE cmake wizard) to input to let you know if this will work. It may also work if the admin directory in 3.5.12 was empty -- just mkdir it and then generate the autools stuff. I never had a good chance to explore the TDE sources, so I couldn't tell you if it was empty or not, though... -- Kris "Piki" Ark Linux Webmaster Trinity Desktop Environment Packager