From: Jost Ammon (jost@ammon-web.de)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2003 - 13:56:19 EDT
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:23:31 +0000
Bernard Lambey <lambey.b@free.fr> wrote:
> Bonjour,
> This morning I was trying to install AbiWord 1.99.1
> .........................................................
> checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.0... yes
> checking GLIB_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I \
> /usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include
> checking GLIB_LIBS... -L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0
> checking for gmodule-2.0 >= 2.0... Package gmodule-2.0 \
> was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gmodule-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gmodule-2.0' found
> configure: error:
> [root@localhost abi]#
> ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> And, miracle after a moment, it is accepted,
> but the process stops on another point and
> there, it is all an avalanche of libs which is
> called: more than 26 Mo...
> All that is it normal ??
> What have I to do ?
Move on to windows!
I've suffered exactly the same fate: rpms that required bunches of dependencies that again required basically installing the latest RedHat release to my Suse 8.0. Compilation (configure && make) led to exactly the messages that you quote, so I at least managed to install a 1.0.2 version without spellchecker and a disgusting gtk look. I was disappointed. I lost a couple of evenings for installing an old, almost dis-functioning text processor.
Today however I did something that I've been doing extremely rarely lately: I switched to Windoze (I have a dual boot machine). Installing the latest Abiword version including plugins, dictionaries and everything didn't last more than 10 minutes and I was smashed by an excellent text processing software that I really seem to fall in love in!
Score one for abiword but remove one for Linux as it is not possible for the typical standalone-desktop-no-hacker type of user to install something like Abiword. Yes, my windoze ME sucks and crashes often, but this doesn't compare to the time I loose with fruitless attempts to install excellent software like abiword to Linux.
However - now I try to install the tar.gz
How can I perform a "./configure" when I don't have a configure script but one "configure.ac" and one "configure.in" (see below)? I have never seen this and it does not comply with the instructions on http://www.abiword.org/download/
giosetti@linux:~/autosave/abiword/abiword-1.0.6/abi> ls
BUILD Makefile autogen.sh po2abi.pl
BUILD-automake-1.5.TXT README.TXT configure.ac shots
BUILD.TXT TODO.TXT configure.in src
BiDiReadme.txt UnixFonts.txt docs test
COPYING UnixLocales.txt dumpstrings.pl user
COPYRIGHT.TXT VERSION.TXT includes.mk
CREDITS.TXT abi2po.pl mpw-build
GNUmakefile.am ac-helpers po
Cheers,
Jost
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