Bug 11554

Summary:	compiz from git won't build on machines without gnome
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Adam K Kirchhoff <akirchhoff135014>
Component:	App/compiz	Assignee:	David Reveman <reveman>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2 (2007.02)
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Adam K Kirchhoff 2007-07-12 04:36:33 UTC

Gnome (or at least gconf) is required to build compiz.  autogen.sh fails with:

adamk@memory:~/workarea/git/compcomm/compiz$ ./autogen.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal
/usr/share/aclocal/nspr.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_NSPR
  run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
  or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
/usr/share/aclocal/imlib.m4:9: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_IMLIB
/usr/share/aclocal/imlib.m4:167: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GDK_IMLIB
/usr/share/aclocal/audiofile.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AUDIOFILE
/usr/share/aclocal/aalib.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AALIB
aclocal:configure.ac:157: warning: macro `AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2' not found in library
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy
libtoolize: `config.guess' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
libtoolize: `config.sub' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
libtoolize: `ltmain.sh' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
/usr/share/aclocal/nspr.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_NSPR
  run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
  or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
/usr/share/aclocal/imlib.m4:9: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_IMLIB
/usr/share/aclocal/imlib.m4:167: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GDK_IMLIB
/usr/share/aclocal/audiofile.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AUDIOFILE
/usr/share/aclocal/aalib.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AALIB
aclocal:configure.ac:157: warning: macro `AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2' not found in library
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
metadata/Makefile.am:49: GCONF_SCHEMAS_INSTALL does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 

THis happens even if you pass the --disable-gconf option.

Adam

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