[Fedora-xen] Tryimg to build virt-manager from mercurial: getting error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT - why ?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Mark Ryden wrote:
> Hello,
> Thanks;
> After uninstalling intltool and "yum install intltool" everything went
> ok on FC6.
> I have a machine with FC7 on which I tried the same and ./autogen.sh fails,
> giving the following message (required file `./config.rpath' not found).
> (see below full log).
> 
> On this machine I have:
> gettext-0.16.1-8.fc7
> gettext-devel-0.16.1-8.fc7

Not sure about this one.  On my machine I have config.rpath in the 
libvirt directory (not in the virt-manager directory however), and I 
also have:

$ rpm -qf /usr/share/gettext/config.rpath
gettext-devel-0.14.6-4.fc6

If you have it there, try copying it to the build directory?  I have no 
idea if that will work, but it's worth a try.

BTW, Fedora and Debian (rightly IMO) deprecate use of rpaths, see: 
http://people.debian.org/~che/personal/rpath-considered-harmful and 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-a1dfb5f46bf4098841e31a75d833e6e1b3e72544
On the other hand, the GNU toolchain seems to prefer to add it to libraries.

Rich.

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