Cannot build latest CVS setup

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Tue May 24 11:00:00 GMT 2005


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2005, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
>> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>> $ cd setup && ./bootstrap.sh
>>> /usr/share/aclocal/freetype2.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of
>>>  AC_CHECK_FT2 run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
>>>  or see 
>>> http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
>>> Autotool bootstrapping complete.
>>> $ # again, something's weird here
>>
>> Harmless, but annoyingly verbose - at least, when it isn't our code
>> causing it.  Perhaps we need to prod the freetype2 (Cygwin|upstream)
>> maintainer.
>
> Yep.  Annoying.

It's simple enough to fix up locally, just to suppress the annoying warning. 
Just change this:

-AC_DEFUN(AC_CHECK_FT2,
+AC_DEFUN([AC_CHECK_FT2],

(Or similar, I haven't looked at the actual file)



>>> P.S. Incidentally, neither Max nor Brian (nor me :-)) are in the
>>> CONTRIBUTORS file.
>>
>> Oh... yeah, probably ought to update that! :-)
>> Done.
>
> Thanks, Max!  FWIW, another person who definitely deserves to be in that
> file, but isn't, is Frank Richter (the author of ControlAdjuster and
> resizeable setup).

Agreed, done.

Max.



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