[alsa-devel] Compiling alsa-utils

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:17:24 +0200,
Pavel Hofman wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai napsal(a):
> > At Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:58:09 +0200,
> > Pavel Hofman wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> after clean git clone of  git://git.alsa-project.org/alsa-utils.git I
> >> got the following error:
> >>
> >> pavel at sara:~/install/alsa/alsa-utils$ autoheader
> >> configure.in:268: error: `po/Makefile.in' is already registered with
> >> AC_CONFIG_FILES.
> >> ../../lib/autoconf/status.m4:311: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
> >> configure.in:268: the top level
> >> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> >> autoheader: '/usr/bin/autom4te' failed with exit status: 1
> >>
> >>
> >> After deleting po/Makefile.in from the list of AC_OUTPUT in
> >> configure.in:268 the compilation proceeded fine.
> >>
> >> Ubuntu 9.10.
> > 
> > It's f*** auto-tools, that tells everything :)
> > 
> > Doesn't the simple gitcompile work after the clean clone?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thanks, the gitcompile script works fine. I followed the procedure in
> INSTALL:
> 
>         aclocal
>         gettextize
>         autoheader
>         automake --foreign --copy --add-missing
>         autoconf
>         ./configure
>         make

I guess gettextize options do tricks.
Anyway, usually "autoreconf -fi" should do all auto-tools setup...

> Perhaps we could either update this sequence (but I have no idea how :)
> ), or delete the procedure and just mention the gitcompile script (that
> one I can post as a patch).

Feel free to submit a patch :)


thanks,

Takashi