Hello,
I'm trying to compile celestia in Linux fron SVN revision 4716, but I'm having a problem getting 'make -f Makefile.cvs' to complete. When it gets to admin/cvs.sh, it complains about a missing file (admin/detect-autoconf.pl). In previous versions, it used admin/detect-autoconf.sh, so I tried this to provide the variables about the automake, etc. programs. But still no luck (it failed to create acinclude.m4 - 'no rule to make target'). I must have overlooked something in other posts and faqs, so maybe I'm not doing something right. (I think I have all the prerequisite software installed - I've successfully built other versions before this).
I don't know if this is relevant, but I'm only building the Gnome interface (not KDE). And the svn checkout I'm using is from 'svn co https://celestia.svn.sourceforge.net/sv ... tia/trunk'.
I'm really interested in trying 1.6.0, any help would be greatly appreciated.
compiling from SVN on Linux
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Re: compiling from SVN on Linux
moonwatcher wrote:Hello,
I'm trying to compile celestia in Linux fron SVN revision 4716, but I'm having a problem getting 'make -f Makefile.cvs' to complete. When it gets to admin/cvs.sh, it complains about a missing file (admin/detect-autoconf.pl). In previous versions, it used admin/detect-autoconf.sh, so I tried this to provide the variables about the automake, etc. programs. But still no luck (it failed to create acinclude.m4 - 'no rule to make target'). I must have overlooked something in other posts and faqs, so maybe I'm not doing something right. (I think I have all the prerequisite software installed - I've successfully built other versions before this).
I don't know if this is relevant, but I'm only building the Gnome interface (not KDE). And the svn checkout I'm using is from 'svn co https://celestia.svn.sourceforge.net/sv ... tia/trunk'.
I'm really interested in trying 1.6.0, any help would be greatly appreciated.
The required command has recently changed:
type instead of make -f Makefile.cvs:
> autoreconf -iv
and thereafter as usual
> ./configure --with-...
For people compiling from SVN (with Linux) it is useful to gance at the developers' list
celestia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
from time to time...The point being that our Linux maintainer (Pat Suwalski) is not showing up in this forum.
Good luck,
Fridger
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Re: compiling from SVN on Linux
Hi, Fridger,
Thanks very much for the reply.
I had overlooked the developer's section. I'll use the autoreconf command, I'm pretty sure everything will work now.
Thanks very much for the reply.
I had overlooked the developer's section. I'll use the autoreconf command, I'm pretty sure everything will work now.
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Re: compiling from SVN on Linux
If autoreconf -iv doesn't work, try autoreconf -ivf. You may have to use the -f option depending on distribution and version.
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Re: compiling from SVN on Linux
Hi cartrite,
Thanks for the tip on using the 'f' argument to autoreconf, but 'autoreconf -iv' seemed to work perfectly for me (thanks again, Fridger), at least I have a successful build !
autoreconf -iv; ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gnome; make; make install --- this was successful on an old Fedora 9 system (gcc-4.3.0, glibc-2.8, autoconf-2.61, automake-1.10.1, GConf-2.22.0, Gnome-2.22.3) and my own build of xorg-1.4.0 (to work around NVIDIA driver issues). Celestia loads up and runs (so far) without any problems.
I'm building a Fedora 11 (rawhide) system, and will try to compile again later on that one, with updated software.
Thanks for the tip on using the 'f' argument to autoreconf, but 'autoreconf -iv' seemed to work perfectly for me (thanks again, Fridger), at least I have a successful build !
autoreconf -iv; ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gnome; make; make install --- this was successful on an old Fedora 9 system (gcc-4.3.0, glibc-2.8, autoconf-2.61, automake-1.10.1, GConf-2.22.0, Gnome-2.22.3) and my own build of xorg-1.4.0 (to work around NVIDIA driver issues). Celestia loads up and runs (so far) without any problems.
I'm building a Fedora 11 (rawhide) system, and will try to compile again later on that one, with updated software.
Re: compiling from SVN on Linux
Hey sorry to dig this but just wondering how you went with Fedora 11?
Im having no end of trouble getting it to compile...
Im having no end of trouble getting it to compile...
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