Installation Problem

[pdg]

Hi Jean-Francois.

I googled for a backup solution for my home directory and found ghh.
It does look very nice!
Sadly there was a installation problem with the current version from
git which prevents me from using it on my computer with Debian Lenny.
I coudn't find any helpful information on the net, so I'm posting the
transcript of the installation try here.

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patrick@aqua:/tmp/deb$ git clone http://jean-francois.richard.name/ghh.git
[...]
patrick@aqua:/tmp/deb$ cd ghh/
patrick@aqua:/tmp/deb/ghh$ ./autogen.sh
checking for autoconf >= 2.60...
testing autoconf2.50... not found.
testing autoconf... found 2.61
checking for automake >= 1.9.2...
testing automake-1.10... found 1.10
checking for libtool >= 1.5...
testing libtoolize... found 1.5.24
checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
testing glib-gettextize... found 2.14.3
checking for intltool >= 0.30...
testing intltoolize... found 0.36.2
checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0...
testing pkg-config... found 0.22
checking for gnome-doc-utils >= 0.4.2...
testing gnome-doc-prepare... found 0.12.0
Checking for required M4 macros...
Checking for forbidden M4 macros...
**Warning**: I am going to run `configure' with no arguments.
If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the
`./autogen.sh' command line.

Processing ./configure.ac
Running libtoolize...
You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to
`aclocal.m4'.
Running glib-gettextize... Ignore non-fatal messages.
Copying file mkinstalldirs
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in

Please add the files
codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
progtest.m4
from the /aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.

Running intltoolize...
cp: cannot create regular file `m4/intltool.m4': No such file or
directory
intltoolize: cannot copy '/usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4' to 'm4/
intltool.m4'

<-- snap -->

Any ideas on this? Maybe it's some dependency problem. Which
dependencies need to be satisfied?

Regards
and merry Christmas,

Patrick

[Jean-Francois Richard]

On Dec 23, 2007 11:45 AM, pdg <dasgupta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jean-Francois.

Hi!

> I googled for a backup solution for my home directory and found ghh.
> It does look very nice!

Thanks! I am glad to hear that!

However, it is very far from being complete, I should probably add a
warning on the web page! I started working on it at the end of
November to learn about git and, at the same time, build a tool I
always wanted to have for my own files.

That said, I hope you still want to use/test it! :-) I could really
use some feedback!

> Sadly there was a installation problem with the current version from
> git which prevents me from using it on my computer with Debian Lenny.
> I coudn't find any helpful information on the net, so I'm posting the
> transcript of the installation try here.

> cp: cannot create regular file `m4/intltool.m4': No such file or

> directory
> intltoolize: cannot copy '/usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4' to 'm4/
> intltool.m4'

Two possible reasons:
a) the "/usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4" file is missing (you will need
to "apt-get intltool", perhaps? autoconf should have failed though,
you are right)
b) you do not have an "m4/" directory in the ghh source tree (I will
have to revisit the build scripts to create it automatically)

Please keep me informed.

Thank you for your email,

Jean-Francois

[pdg]

> Hi!

Hello Jean-Francois

> However, it is very far from being complete, I should probably add a
> warning on the web page!

Hey, your documentation looks quite promising already. :-)

> I started working on it at the end of
> November to learn about git and, at the same time, build a tool I
> always wanted to have for my own files.
>
> That said, I hope you still want to use/test it! :-) I could really
> use some feedback!

Of course, I still want to test it! And I will post about my
experience with ghh.

> Two possible reasons:
> a) the "/usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4" file is missing (you will need
> to "apt-get intltool", perhaps? autoconf should have failed though,
> you are right)

/usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4 does exist.

> b) you do not have an "m4/" directory in the ghh source tree (I will
> have to revisit the build scripts to create it automatically)

Ok, I think this it was. I made a fresh 'git clone' and now it seems
to work. Thanks very much!

> Please keep me informed.

> Thank you for your email,
>
> Jean-Francois

Regards,

Patrick