E17 is coming? (part 5)

UberPinguin · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 2:57 am Post subject: E17 is coming? (part 5)

Continued from E17 is coming? (part 4)
Long threads hurt the forums...

For those of you interested in the previous incarnations of this topic:

UberPinguin · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 3:05 am Post subject:

morbus · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject:

BTW masking autmake-1.10 to let e compile is just an ugly workarround, you should put E17_WANT_AUTOMAKE="1.9" into make.conf instead (at least until this issues is fixed in the ebuild itself).

UberPinguin · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 3:43 pm Post subject:

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 2782

Doesn't work with e_modules

Actually everything upto e emerges fine for me, even with automake 1.10. It is e_modules which fails (even when I set E17_WANT_AUTOMAKE="1.9" in /etc/make.conf).

bendy · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 8:47 pm Post subject:

UberPinguin · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject:

bendy · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject:

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 2782

UberPinguin · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject:

sudharsh · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:37 am Post subject:

i did compile all the thingies from the e17 cvs, to save yourselves some aspirin, you will need automake 1.9 and autoconf 2.60...For some reason automake1.10 just didnt work..

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UberPinguin · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject:

wwonderllama · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 14

I've been struggling with the appropriate build environment for e17 as well. Currently, I'm at:

# equery list autoconf
[ Searching for package 'autoconf' in all categories among: ]
* installed packages
[I--] [ ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13 (2.1)
[I--] [ ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r7 (2.5)
[I--] [ ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-4-r3 (0)

# equery list automake
[ Searching for package 'automake' in all categories among: ]
* installed packages
[I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6 (1.4)
[I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.5 (1.5)
[I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3 (1.6)
[I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.9-r1 (1.7)
[I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r3 (1.

[I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r2 (1.9)
[I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.10 (1.10)
[I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1-r1 (0)

I'm using

WANT_AUTOCONF="2.50" (suggested by get-e.org)
E17_WANT_AUTOMAKE="1.9" (suggested in this thread)
with automake-wrapper-1-r1 (suggested elsewhere.. forums of get-e.org, IIRC)

If I simply emerge e-9999, it errors out with:

UberPinguin · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject:

I don't know whether this will help you or not, but here's what I've got:

wwonderllama · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 14

Actually, I was at Autoconf 2.60, but downgraded to a 2.5x series in case 2.60 wasn't fully a "2.5" like the e17 build wants. I notice your autoconf-wrapper is an older version too. I'll go ahead and install the versions you have and see if that helps. Thanks for the reply!

Edit: I think my problem may be that once I get the compile going (after commenting out the AC_C___ATTRIBUTE_ in configure.in), I get a warning:

config.status: WARNING: po/Makefile.in.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting

The po/ directory is where my install stops. (as you can see in my previous post)

Any thoughts on how to fix it?

wwonderllama · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 14

Present versions recommended are GNU m4 1.4, autoconf 2.54, automake 1.7, libtool 1.4.3, and gettext 0.11.5.

Can someone post their working versions from:
equery list m4
equery list libtool
equery list gettext
equery list autoconf
equery list automake

I'd like to get a sane build environment if I can, so I can better figure out where the problem is.

Thanks much.
PhillW

UberPinguin · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject:

wwonderllama · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 14

Thanks for that, UP. From those packages, I assume you're using some ~x86 packages?

I've updated my packages to reflect yours, but I'm still having the same problem.

Are you able to simply emerge e-9999 and the whole thing goes off without a hitch, or do you have to use autopoint mid-way through the emerge?

Edit: spelling

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 2782

wwonderllama · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 14

Thanks ppurka, your package list looks exactly like mine did before I started downgrading/upgrading. The only difference is I was at autoconf-1.10. Downgrading was the first thing I did, which gave me the packages you list.

I'm pole-axed as to why I get the AC_C___ATTRIBUTE__ error while noone else does, as it seems to be some auto* problem.

Currently, I can get to compile via acrobatics and ebuild e compile/install, but it's ignoring my USE flags apparently. If I try to run e, it complains about not finding ecore_directfb.lib, but I put -directfb in my USE flags.

I just ran a standard emerge, ctrl-z'ing at opportune points to edit the configuration files but letting emerge do the heavy lifting, and it's not complaining about directfb. Looks like I have a fair amount of testing to do to see if this is workable.

However, I'd really appreciate any help on figuring out my actual problem. I hate using hacks and this is obviously working for other people.

For what it's worth, I'm running stable with select packages (e and a few others) ~x86.

UberPinguin · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject:

sudharsh · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:00 am Post subject:

the easy_e17 script is good...but you might want to keep in mind the following things

Default installation downloads all sorts of nonsense you wouldnt need...select packages that you want, and the etk_server froze package my box with 100% CPU usage during compilation, I have an athlon xp 2000+ with 768 megs of RAM..no not errors, just grinds the box like a windows 95 machine. The guys in #e say that, it expected...
If anyone had that etk_server compiled without problems, please let me know
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GODLiKE · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 49

Hey people. Been reading the forums anonymously for a while (this E thread is the longest I've ever seen!)

Well, I had installed E a few weeks back, miraculously on the first try. Just unmasked, emerged and it was it. This time around had a few more problems (imlib2 being broken on CVS, which got fixed later, but I emerged an older version of imlib2, and evas with all the directfb thing). But I got it running in the end

.

The problem is that any application other than those native to E (like the control panel or stuff) don't show any icons (well, they show the classic tiny little white window, much like Windows' "unknown application"does. Excuse my reference to Windows here, but it's been only a month since I started with Linux (right on Gentoo

) and I still haven't completely migrated to it). This happens not only on the upper left corner of the app window but also on iBox and on the Pager. I was wondering if anyone ever had the same issue and how did he/she manage to fix it, since on my first try of E a few weeks back it was perfectly fine from the beginning.

Thanks in advance!
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stobbsm · Guru Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 452

My question: When will e17 ever NOT be coming? It's been coming for many years now, and it just keeps coming.
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ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 2782